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Ernst Neizvestny: The Artist as Philosopher |
| Section: THE ARTS / PERSPECTIVES |
| Author: Albert L. Weeks |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1986 |
| Size: 2,359 Words, 14,802 Characters |
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Sculptor, painter, engraver and philosopher, Ernst Neizvestny is regarded internationally as one of the finest artists to have left the Soviet Union in recent years. His works include the Lotus Flower monument-the tallest sculpture in the world--atop the Aswan dam in Egypt, a crucifix in the Vatican Museum, a bronze head of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as the headstone for the grave of former Soviet premier Nikita Khruschev.
In a recent interview for The World and I, Dr. Albert Weeks, a New York University professor, journalist, and scholar on Soviet affairs who speaks fluent Russian, conversed with Mr. Neizvestny at his Soho gallery in New York's Greenwich Village. While discussing his perspectives on art and society, the a...
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... says. Elaborating, he adds that "in America there is hope for the appearance of an art in which the profound vertical axis containing ontological, metaphysical, and other historically-formed values intersects with the impetuous horizontal axis assimilating contemporary values of the age of technical revolution. And, where the vertical and horizontal meet, a new art inevitably will arise." vbcrlf
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