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The last Soviet artist / Victoria Lomasko ; translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich.
Van Pelt Library DK295 .L6613 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lomasko, Viktorii︠a︡, author, illustrator.
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Former Soviet republics--History--21st century.
- Political culture.
- Dissenters--Russia (Federation).
- Dissenters.
- Political persecution--Russia (Federation).
- Political persecution.
- Artists--Russia (Federation)--Biography.
- Artists.
- Freedom of expression--Russia (Federation).
- Freedom of expression.
- Former Soviet republics--Social conditions--History--21st century.
- Former Soviet republics.
- Former Soviet republics--Social conditions--History--21st century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Former Soviet republics--Description and travel--21st century.
- Former Soviet republics--Description and travel--21st century--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Former Soviet republics--Politics and government.
- Former Soviet republics--Politics and government--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.
- Russia (Federation).
- Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991---Comic books, strips, etc.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction comics.
- Political comics.
- Social issue comics.
- Travel comics.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, New York : n+1 Foundation, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English; translated from the Russian.
- Summary:
- "Even before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022, dissent in Russia was an increasingly elusive commodity. Since then it has been effectively banned, as Russian dissidents are assassinated, imprisoned, or forced into exile. The result is that, both at home and abroad, the experience and texture of Russian society have become difficult to grasp. What is actually happening in Russia and the former USSR today? The Last Soviet Artist offers a vivid, original, brilliantly illustrated answer. Banned from exhibiting her work at home, Victoria Lomasko is an exile and a dissident of the old school. Much ink has been spilled about Russia during the Putin years, but there is nothing like Lomasko's sui generis graphic reportage, unwavering in its humanity and its determination to find space for artistic freedom in a climate of near-total repression. Lomasko's first book, the award-winning Other Russias (n+1 Books), is now in its fourth printing and was translated into seven languages. The Last Soviet Artist will pick up where Other Russias left off, offering an urgent intervention that will further deepen Western readers' understanding of Russia at a moment of extreme cultural isolation. And if it ruffles some important feathers along the way, well--Lomasko is used to it." -- Amazon.com
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Traces of Empire. A trip to Bishkek ; A trip to Yerevan ; A trip to Dagestan ; Travels to Tbilisi, 2015-16 ; A trip to Ingushetia, 2017 ; Travels to Osh, 2016-17
- The last Soviet artist becomes someone else. A trip to Minsk, 2020 ; Moscow : a battle of the generations, 2021 ; Moscow : life on the island, 2021
- Exile. Moscow under snow ; Collective shame / [Victoria Lomasko] with Joe Sacco ; Five steps / [translation, Mark Krotov]
- Notes:
- "The Last Soviet Artist was originally conceived as a continuation of my previous book, Other Russias, following its path, but expanding its range into so-called post-Soviet space."--Page 9.
- ISBN:
- 9781953813145
- 1953813143
- OCLC:
- 1473928211
- Publisher Number:
- 90101742469
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