Art & museums
Architecture + Design Film Series, The Desert of Forbidden Art
During Stalin’s Soviet era, Igor Savitsky collected more than 40,000 beautiful, colorful, powerful and rarely seen works by artists experimenting in a brash, avant-garde style. These works, at odds with the drab realism favored by the government, put the artists at great risk. Savitsky searched out the artists and their works and created a museum in Uzbekistan, remote enough that he evaded the worst of Soviet censorship. He collected and preserved cultural artifacts of Uzbeks as the...
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