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By Robert Bird, Christopher P. Heuer

In the final thirty years of the Soviet Communist venture, Viktor Koretsky’s artwork struggled to unravel an everlasting riddle: easy methods to be sure or fix Communism’s ethical healthiness during the creation of a distinctively Communist imaginative and prescient. during this feel Koretsky’s paintings demonstrates what an “avant-garde overdue Communist artwork” may have gave the look of if we had ever obvious it mature. such a lot extraordinary of all, Koretsky was once pioneering the visible languages of Benetton and MTV at a time while the iconography of interracial togetherness used to be nonetheless just a imprecise rumor on Madison Avenue.

Vision and Communism offers a sequence of interconnected essays dedicated to Viktor Koretsky’s paintings and the social worlds that it was hoping to rework. Produced jointly through its 5 editors, this writing additionally considers the visible artwork, movie, and tune integrated within the exhibition Vision and Communism, establishing on the clever Museum of paintings in September 2011.

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