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Yevgeny Rukhin, a prolific Nonconformist artist, showed the willingness
and strength to defend his artistic expression during his short career.
A Leningrad artist, Rukhin produced work that abruptly challenged
Social Realism while staging controversial events such as the Bulldozer
Exhibition (1974) with fellow artist and friend, Oscar Rabine. Less
than two years after this underground exhibition was violently broken
up by police, Rukhin died in his sleep, surrounded by toxic pa (showing 500 of 1331 characters). |
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