Golomshtok, Igor

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Name (Latin)
Golomshtok, Igor
Other forms of name
Golomshtok, I. N
Golomstock, Igor
Date of birth
1929-01-11
Date of death
2017-07-12
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 51739966
Wikidata: Q4142120
Library of congress: n 84129472
Sources of Information
  • Rueschemeyer, M. Soviet emigre artists, c1985:CIP t.p. (Igor Golomshtok)
  • LC data base, 10/17/84(hdg.: Golomshtok, I. N.; usage: Igor Golomshtok)
  • His Totalitarian art, 1990:t.p. (Igor Golomstock) jkt. (b. 1929 in Soviet Union; lives in Oxford, Eng.)
  • Totalitarnoe iskusstvo, 1994:t.p. (Igorʹ Golomshtok) colophon (Golomshtok, Igorʹ Naumovich)

Wikipedia description:

Igor Golomstock (11 January 1929 - 12 July 2017) was a Jewish origin, Russian and English-language, London-based, world art historian. He was the author of several books about Western artists like Pablo Picasso, Hieronymus Bosch, Paul Cézanne, Hans Holbein and Damien Hirst. In Totalitarian Art, he contended that totalitarian art looked the same regardless of the regime, became a weapon of oppression through myth and propaganda.

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