Cultural Dissent and Defection: The Case of Soviet Nonconformist Artists

Wyszomirski, Margaret Jane; Oleszczuk, Thomas A.; Smith, Theresa C.

doi:10.1080/07335113.1988.9942181

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“…This provoked an artistic exodus in 1974 which saw Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya expelled from the USSR, and Mikhail Baryshnikov defect. Another wave of Soviet cultural defectors followed in 1979 and 1980 that included, among others, Bolshoi Ballet dancers Aleksander Godunov, Valentina Kozlova and Leonid Kozlov, Sulamif Messerer and her son Mikhail, as well as figure skating champions and Lenin Prize awardees Oleg and Ludmilla Protopopov (Wyszomirski, Oleszczuk, & Smith, 1988). Each of these incidents and the regime swings between cultural repression and relative openness sustained an image of an oppressive Soviet cultural policy and reinforced the American perception that, as Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin noted in 1981, “The countries that have cultural policies are, of course, totalitarian countries” (Adams & Goldbard, 1998).…”

Section: The Concept Of Cultural Policy: Comparative and Contextual Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Public Support for the Arts to Cultural Policy

Wyszomirski

2004

Review of Policy Research

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Although public funding for the arts had been an element of budget and appropriations business at both the federal and state levels for over a quarter century, the idea that policy justifies and directs these resource allocations has been slow to emerge. This article provides a historiographical discussion of how the issue was framed and of the resistance to the term "cultural policy" through reference to contextual, political, and epistemic factors. It then uses four presidential reports ranging from 1953 to 1997 to track the evolution of political language concerning the policy definition of the arts and culture, the roles and responsibilities of the federal government regarding these, and the emergence of a range of policy issues beyond public funding. Copyright 2004 by The Policy Studies Association..

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Section: The Concept Of Cultural Policy: Comparative and Contextual Pmentioning

confidence: 99%