A Ransomed Dissident
A Life in Art Under the Soviets
In 1939, a ten-year-old Igor Golomstock accompanied his mother, a medical doctor, to the vast network of labour camps in the Russian Far East. While she tended patients, he was minded by assorted 'trusty' prisoners - hardened criminals - and returned to Moscow an almost feral adolescent, fluent in obscene prison jargon but intellectually ignorant. Despite this dubious start he became a leading art historian and co-author (with his close friend Andrey Sinyavsky) of the first, deeply controversial, monograph on Picasso published in the Soviet Union. His writings on his 43 years in the Soviet Union offer a rare insight into life as a quietly sub…
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Weitere Autoren: Jolly, Sara (Übers.) / Dralyuk, Boris (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78673-449-5
- EAN: 9781786734495
- Produktnummer: 31924787
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'046 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 bw in 8pp mono plates; 1 map.
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Igor Golomstock (1929-2017) was an art historian, translator, university lecturer, and radio broadcaster. He was born in Russia and emigrated to the UK.
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