Sverdlovsk-Ekaterinburg marginal artists: a way out of underground art of the 1970s –1990s
No. 3 (26) (2022), Forum
No. 3 (26) (2022)

Sverdlovsk-Ekaterinburg marginal artists: a way out of underground art of the 1970s –1990s

Forum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.03.003
Published 2022-09-30
Vera V. Avdeeva
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russian Federation

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Abstract

The article examines the position and place of non-professional Sverdlovsk-Ekaterinburg artists in the last third of the twentieth century. These are balancing on the borders of marginality or being in its borderline states: Valery Gavrilov (1948–1982) and Zinaida Gavrilova (1974–1993), E.M. Malakhin or the old man B.U. Kashkin (1938–2005), the first generation of unofficial artists of the 1970s – 1980s; D.P. Devyatov (born 1968), L. Lugovoi (born 1964), etc., the second generation of unofficial artists of 1980s – 1990s. The subject of the study was both the artists themselves and their associations, as well as their creative experiments with materials, forms, and motifs. The author finds in the works of non-professional artists stylistic parallels with the classics of surrealism, cubism, constructivism, naive, outsider art and art brut, at the same time noting the rebellious spirit and postmodern experiments in the artistic and figurative interpretation of the visible world.

https://doi.org/10.46748/ARTEURAS.2022.03.003

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