Erik Bulatov is among the foremost contemporary Russian artists. In the 1960s, he was a founder of the Sretensky Boulevard Group of nonconformist artists in Moscow. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Bulatov immigrated to Paris, and his art became more critically engaged. Bulatov’s work was featured in the 1977 Venice Biennale and has been the subject of solo exhibitions, including at the Centre Pompidou-Musée National d’Art Moderne, in Paris (1988). He has lived in Paris since 1992. In 2008, Bulatov became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Eric Bulatov created many paintings that paired nature scenes with Soviet slogans, suggesting that the control of the Soviet regime was everywhere, in every corner of its citizens’ lives. In Red…
Marx was a prophet, no less so than Isaiah, Jeremiah, or Ezekiel. With honest conviction and courage he proclaimed the economic liberation of humanity. He appealed to the workers of the world and…
Title page of the first known printed version of the Ku-bukh (Cow Book), a sixteenth-century collection of Yiddish fables, published in Verona, Italy in 1595. The later compendium of Yiddish stories…