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Synopsis
In the 1960s, as in the 1920s, Soviet artists became the epicentre of a new cultural movement - the first to grasp and express a transformation in the spirit of their country's times. In the 1920s, the movement was a radical shift away from pure aesthetics and toward political statements on behalf of the Soviet masses, often in the form of posters and murals seen in public stadiums and squares. In the 1960s, this movement reversed itself, with art acting as a mirror of shifting social and political values. The scale shifted from public to individual and the enclosed spaces of private life returned to favour in artistic circles. The resulting "non-official art", a harbinger of rising dissatisfaction with Soviet public policy, is captured within this text.
