Olga Yushkova

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Olga Yushkova
Mikhail Schwartzman: On the Way to a New Canon

№4 2008 (21)

Few artists in the history of art have been able to create their own universe. The art of Mikhail Schwartzman is a distinctive and outstanding phenomenon; its place in the history of 20th century art is still to be determined. The name of Schwartzman was well known in artistic circles. He graduated from the Moscow State University of Applied Arts (formerly the Stroganov Institute) in 1956, and he began his creative activity in the time of the Khrushchev “Thaw”. A society of artists and writers, who took up a position of unofficial art, appeared at that time in Moscow. As a rule, Schwartzmanʼs name is mentioned among such artists because of his deep influence on the artists, poets and philosophers of the underground.