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La dernière artiste soviétique
Née en 1978 en Union soviétique, Victoria Lomasko interroge, trente ans après la partition du bloc de l’Est, les vestiges de cet empire autant en Russie que dans les nouveaux États apparemment indépendants. Et tandis même que la pandémie de Covid 19 bouscule ses plans, le livre se mue en un témoignage d’une époque qui a vu le plus vaste pays du monde passer d’un sordide régime autoritaire à une effrayante dictature. Les dernières lignes du présent livre furent écrites au début de l’exil de l’autrice, qui a débuté en mars 2022.
Fidèle à la tradition littéraire russe où un livre ne traite que rarement d’un sujet unique, Victoria Lomasko dépeint à travers La Dernière Artiste soviétique le portrait populaire d’un monde en équilibre précaire autant qu’elle interroge le statut de l’artiste.
Fidèle à la tradition littéraire russe où un livre ne traite que rarement d’un sujet unique, Victoria Lomasko dépeint à travers La Dernière Artiste soviétique le portrait populaire d’un monde en équilibre précaire autant qu’elle interroge le statut de l’artiste.
- GenresGraphic Novels
296 pages, Paperback
Published February 17, 2023
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October 8, 2022
"Al poble de la vora, Tróitskoie, no vaig aconseguir trobar russos. En aquest antic campament cosac els monuments eren l'únic record de l'època soviètica. Vaig preguntar als ingúixos per què no els havien tret. 'No són els monuments els qui ens van deportar, germaneta', em van respondre. Els nassos de les esculures, però, estaven trencats." (Lomasko: 145).
This book is a collection of drawings by Victoria Lomasko of her time in some post-Soviet countries and Russian regions. Together with these drawings, an accompanying text is included to provide some context and explanation, which is great, as her drawings are not always that much detailed.
Some drawings reminded me of those engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that allowed people to see distant paintings or monuments that otherwise would have not been seen because cameras were not available yet and travelling was expensive. This is why I wish the book had had more drawings of landscapes and more full-page drawings. In the same way as Alice Neel or Annie Swynnerton already did, Victoria Lomasko brings ordinary people and activists into her portraits.
The book is a celebration of the role of the artist and the art of drawing. Unlike Paul Gauguin, who brought to a nineteenth-century French audience an unreal image of an unkwown Oceania, Victoria Lomasko brings a real image of all these territories that are close geographically but feel so distant to many Western Europeans. And this is brilliant.
This book is a collection of drawings by Victoria Lomasko of her time in some post-Soviet countries and Russian regions. Together with these drawings, an accompanying text is included to provide some context and explanation, which is great, as her drawings are not always that much detailed.
Some drawings reminded me of those engravings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that allowed people to see distant paintings or monuments that otherwise would have not been seen because cameras were not available yet and travelling was expensive. This is why I wish the book had had more drawings of landscapes and more full-page drawings. In the same way as Alice Neel or Annie Swynnerton already did, Victoria Lomasko brings ordinary people and activists into her portraits.
The book is a celebration of the role of the artist and the art of drawing. Unlike Paul Gauguin, who brought to a nineteenth-century French audience an unreal image of an unkwown Oceania, Victoria Lomasko brings a real image of all these territories that are close geographically but feel so distant to many Western Europeans. And this is brilliant.
March 7, 2024
El libro es interesante para acercarte a realidades que quedan muy lejanas de la europa occidental pero que es necesario conocerlas. Aún asi no me ha acabado de atrapar. El estilo gráfico es correcto.
August 4, 2023
Molt interessant la visió d’algunes repúbliques post-soviètiques pre i postpandèmiques. Gràcies àlex per aquest regal!
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