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Somerset House's facade on the Strand. Built in 1776 by Sir William Chambers the fine Neoclassical building is home to the Courtauld Institute.

Russian art history has been hijacked by the West

Feb 7th, 2017 | By

  Many Russian Art historians, in Russia, are puzzled by the slew of art exhibitions being organized in the West this year as a celebration of the 1917 Russian Revolution, an event that triggered the 70 year Communist Era that brought brutality, poverty, death and terror. Russia itself, having actually experienced the trauma of 1917,
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Tags: Anthony Blunt, art history is dead, Ernst Gombrich, Kenneth Clarke, Marxist art history, Russian art, Russian art history hijacked by the West, Russian Avant Garde, Socialist realism, The Courtauld Institute