The exhibition “15 Years of Artists of the RSFSR” and the struggle against the 'formalists'

Authors

  • Thyago Marão Villela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2018.148165

Keywords:

Socialist realism, Kazimir Malevich, Stalinism

Abstract

The exhibition “15 Years of Artists of the RSFSR” (1933-1934) was a crucial moment in the process of establishing socialist realism by the Soviet government. In the second installment of the show, in Moscow, the works of the artists considered "formalists", such as Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Drevin and Nadezhda Udal'tsova, were exposed in a defamatory manner and were violently attacked by the press. What devices have been mobilized to produce such persecution? Why expose and defame the referred artists?

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Author Biography

  • Thyago Marão Villela, Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas

    Doutorando em Sociologia pela Unicamp e Mestre em Artes Visuais pela ECA - USP.

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Published

2018-08-27

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Articles

How to Cite

Villela, T. M. (2018). The exhibition “15 Years of Artists of the RSFSR” and the struggle against the ’formalists’. ARS, 16(33), 125-145. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2018.148165