Soviet Criticism on ‘Contemporary Western Bourgeois Art’
Controversy and Satire at the Time of Khrushchev’s Artistic Thaw
abstract
Taking into consideration the period of Khrushchev’s artistic Thaw (1956-62), the article analyses, with the help of satirical cartoons of the time, the leading and most widespread judgments expressed by Soviet criticism on contemporary Western art.
Keywords: Soviet criticism • Soviet art theory • Khrushchev’s Thaw • Soviet caricatures • Informal art