Ideally different. Artists about the sixties. Alekseev V.

Moscow sixties - an interesting cultural phenomenon that began with the festival of youth and students (1957) and ended with a bulldozer exhibition (1974). The liberation from the Stalinist tyranny led to the emergence of the brilliant generation of the intelligentsia, part of which lived its own, parallel to Soviet society, life. In the book of Vadim Alekseev, the era appears through the eyes of unofficial artists, in the basements of which a new artistic language was looking for, a lost connection with Europe and the forgotten avant-garde of the 1920s was restored, poets, thinkers, and foreigners gathered. “Perfectly different” is fifteen heroes, from Andrei Volkonsky to Vladimir Yankilevsky.

The reader will repeatedly meet stories about the legendary Anatolia Zverev in the book, the central place in it is occupied by the memories of the great artist Lydia Masterkova. Of the bright memoirs, accompanied by rare photographs, and forms like a stained glass window from fragments, polyphony of Moscow life of the 1950-1970s.