{"id":26878,"title":"Portrait of Gorky / Cover of Krasnaya Niva Magazine","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1930-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":220,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":59,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Soviet artefacts Socialistisch realisme","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"portrait-of-gorky-cover-of-krasnaya-niva-magazine","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/162/medium_500/VVG0_44.jpg?1603099518","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Periodical","nl":"Tijdschrift","fr":"Périodique"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/162/large/VVG0_44.jpg?1603099518","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaxim Gorky (1868-1936) was a Russian and Soviet writer regarded as the father of Socialist Realism, and was the head of The First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers. His speech for the congress was full of strong criticism against modernist literature and art. The period from 1907 to 1917, (the period of flourishing avant-garde art and literature in Russia), was condemned by Gorky \u0026ldquo;as the most shameful and shameless decade in the history of the Russian intelligentsia\u0026rdquo;, the time of \u0026ldquo;irresponsible ideas\u0026rdquo; and complete \u0026ldquo;freedom of creation\u0026rdquo;. Such liberty, according to Gorky, \u0026ldquo;found its expression in propaganda of all the conservative ideas of the Western bourgeoisie\u0026rdquo;. For a significant part of his life, the writer was exiled from Russia and later the Soviet Union. He returned to the USSR in 1932 on Joseph Stalin\u0026#39;s personal invitation. Shortly after his death, the complexities in Gorky\u0026#39;s writing, his political and artistic views were reduced to an unambiguous iconic image: Gorky as a great Soviet writer of common descent and the founder and fierce supporter of the increasingly canonical Socialist Realism.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaxim\u0026nbsp;Gorky\u0026nbsp;(1868-1936) was een Russische en Sovjetschrijver die werd beschouwd als de vader van het socialistisch realisme. Hij stond tevens aan het hoofd van het eerste Vakbondscongres van Sovjetschrijvers en zijn toespraak op dat congres stond bol van kritiek op modernistische literatuur en kunst. De periode 1907-1917, \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n van florerende avant-gardekunst en -literatuur in\u0026nbsp;Rusland,\u0026nbsp; werd\u0026nbsp;door\u0026nbsp;Gorky\u0026nbsp;veroordeeld \u0026ldquo;als het meest beschamende en schaamteloze decennium in de geschiedenis van de Russische intelligentsia,\u0026rdquo; een tijd van onverantwoordelijke idee\u0026euml;n en volledige \u0026#39;vrijheid van creatie\u0026#39;. Een dergelijke vrijheid, aldus\u0026nbsp;Gorky, \u0026ldquo;vond haar uitdrukking in de propaganda van alle conservatieve idee\u0026euml;n van de westerse bourgeoisie.\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;Gorki\u0026nbsp;werd een groot deel van zijn leven verbannen uit Rusland \u0026ndash; en later uit de Sovjet-Unie \u0026ndash; maar op persoonlijke uitnodiging van Joseph Stalin keerde hij in 1932 terug naar de USSR. Kort na zijn dood werden de complexiteit van\u0026nbsp;Gorky\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;geschriften en zijn politieke en artistieke opvattingen in de USSR teruggebracht tot een ondubbelzinnig iconisch beeld:\u0026nbsp;Gorky\u0026nbsp;als groot\u0026nbsp;Sovjet-schrijver\u0026nbsp;van eenvoudige afkomst, de stichter en hevige voorstander van het steeds\u0026nbsp;canonieker\u0026nbsp;wordende socialistisch realisme.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}