DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE SAME ISSUE

Abstract

The limit of perception and understanding of the artistic problems of the postwar period should be considered the seventies, or rather their second half. It is hard to say why it was this period that entered the history of the country and the history of art as a time of brutal repression of free thought, a time marked by numerous criminal cases opened against nationally conscientious artists – painters, writers, journalists, composers. It was a turning point for a changed public perception of artistic processes in general and the leading artistic method at the time – socialist realism – in particular. Weak manifestations of the new understanding and, most importantly, the first attempts to publish facts from the national history of art, which seemed to have been forever hidden in the basements of Soviet power, became the first bricks in the wall of subsequent art and cultural studies. Despite the fact that science still remained entirely Soviet, the democratic component declared itself.