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Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR, later known as the Association of Artists of the Revolution – AKhR) and its activities. The author tries to assess the impact of this experience on the development of the regional art community. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the exhibition practice of the second half of the 1920s – early 1930s, studied on the basis of archival sources and journalistic materials of that time. The problems of relationships between professional artists and self-taught artists are also touched upon. It is concluded that crises and conflicts of the artistic environment of Sverdlovsk, opposition of local unformed creative groups, as well as, in general, the problem of the artist's realization in the region in conditions of isolation from the center, practical isolation from artistic processes were projected onto the activities of the Ural branch of the AKhRR (AKhR).
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