Soviet Art

Synopsis: Discusses official art in the Soviet Union; its organisation, its role in society and its history since the time of the experimental and subsequently repudiated period of the early 1920s. Dissident movements are also covered: the way some artists have been tolerated by the state while others live a dangerous life. Examines the training the artists receive where questions of individual vision, experimentation and formalist or abstract art have no place; yet within these constraints certain popular artists convey inner spiritual qualities through the dominant style of social realism.
Series: South Bank Show, The: Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 60 min. Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 60 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1981
Availability: Hire
Subjects: Art
Keywords: art - Russian art; Soviet Union

Director

Binia Tymieniecka

Producer

Binia Tymieniecka

Writer

Binia Tymieniecka; Peter Smith

Contributor

Melvyn Bragg

Cast

Phillip Madoc

Name: Arts on Film Archive, University of Westminster
Notes: Arts on Film Archive offers on-line access to a large range of films on art produced in the United Kingdom since the 1950s, and is a unique record of British and international post-war art, as well as of documentary film-making in the UK. In its first phase, the archive offers a complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE. The collection is only available streamed to ac.uk domain addresses.

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