BBC. Искусство России, The Art of Russia 2009, серия 3 из 3

3. Ломая шаблоны (Советское и Российское искусство), Smashing the Mould The final part examines political revolution and how art was at the forefront of throwing out 1, 000 years of royal rule, from its earliest revolutionary days of enthusiasm and optimism when painting died, the poster was king and the machinemade triumphed over the handmade to the dead hand of Socialist Realism. Andrew roots out great portraits of Stalin now hidden in museum storerooms and never on public view, looks at the transformation of the Moscow metro into a great public art gallery and visits the most stunning creation of postwar Communist rule, the Space Monument. Finally, he comes to the confusion and chaos of Russia today and how it is producing some of the world s strangest art from heroic sculptures of Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the insides of a giant erotic apple; from the recreation of the Imperial royal family facing the firing squad to sculpture in liquid oil; from Russia s embrace of the commercial art market to