Entartete Kunst in holy Russia

by Will, 7 July 2008

 

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Florian Hassel reports [G]… on the absurd prosecution of the [now sacked] curator of the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery, Andrei Erofeyev, and the director of the Andrei Sakharov Museum, Yurii Samodurov, who are alleged to have instigated a “national dispute” by insulting the Russian Orthodox religion with their “Forbidden Art 2006″ exhibition: “The exhibition has ‘had a psychologically and morally negative effect on the visitors’ and ‘threatened the integrity of visitors’ personalities and destroyed their existing world views’ due to the ‘extreme force of the psychologically traumatic influence’ according to the prosecution. If convicted, the curators could face a fine, an extended suspension from work or up to five years in a prison camp.”*

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See also this older article in English for context/background - that sort of thing …

Article with images attached available for perusal here

* Sign and Sight translation.

Comments

  1. SnoopyTheGoon

    “absurd prosecution”? Nothing freaking absurd about it. The whole country goes down the totalitarian drain for quite a few years already, so it’s only logical.