“Hard Turn: 1930s–1960s. The State as Curator and Censor” — the third lecture of the series “Nonconformists: Art Against the System.”

“Hard Turn: 1930s–1960s. The State as Curator and Censor” — the third lecture of the series “Nonconformists: Art Against the System.”
How did art become a tool of state control in the 1930s? Socialist realism was not just a style, but a method of political pressure. We will discuss artists of the era, censorship, and the internal struggle for creative freedom under state supervision.