Moscow Union of Artists. A look from the XXI century. Book 1

The book discusses the features of artistic life in one of the most important periods of the development of Soviet fine art, covering 1932-1962, through the prism of the thirty-year history of the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSH) The internal arrangement of artistic forces after the unification of various art groups into a single union is shown. The relationship between the Moscow Region has been traced with power structures in various periods of its existence and the methods of implementing the cultural policy of the authorities and its changes over the course of 30 years of the existence of the Moscow Region are shown. The problems of internal deep autonomous processes in the artistic environment and its reaction to the cultural policy of the authorities are affected. In general, a wide picture of the country"s artistic life in the study period, marked by the creation of a powerful corps of Soviet fine art, is presented