Revisioning Stalinist discourse of art: Mikhail Liebman’s academic networks and his social art history by Krista Kodres

“…It was a time when the Soviet art history avant-garde, called ‘revisionists’, encouraged by Khrushchev’s de-Stalinisation policy, began critically reappraising art and art history’s Marxist-Leninist/Stalinist approach. The article seeks to determine why and how Liebman’s art history discourse changed in this new political situation. …”
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Toward a New Concept of Progressive Art: Art History in the Service of Modernisation in the Late Socialist Period. An Estonian Case by Krista Kodres

“…The modernisation of art history is discussed based on the example of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (Estonian SSR), where art historians were forced to accept the Soviets’ centrally constructed Marxist-Leninist aesthetic and approach to art and art history. …”
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