Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Abstract
The exhibition, The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964-1986, invites visitors directly into the carefully re-created interior of a Soviet communal apartment. Within the kind of environment where the paintings first breathed freely, visitors have the opportunity to experience works by unofficial artists of the Soviet era who boldly executed and exhibited art that did not conform to the ideological prescriptions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. These artists had to substitute the private space of their apartments for the public space controlled and denied them by the Party. Planning and staging these exhibitions, the artists defied the cultural impositions of an authoritarian regime that repeatedly demonstrated its resolve to suppress them.
Recommended Citation
Troncale, Joseph C. "The Space of Freedom." In The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964-1986. Richmond, Virginia: Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, 2006.
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2006 Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums.