Hack-work as way of life

Informal art by definition assumes existence of the official — uniqueness of the Soviet experience consists that the first could be combined organically with the second in the same artist. Tolstova Anna tells how the Soviet artists conducted a double life which quite often was not such double. Eric Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev. Illustration to the book Perro Sharl "Puss in Boots", 1975 Photos: Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vasilyev; publishing house "Kid", Moscow, 1975 "Too Kukryniksa — cheap stuff young" — in December, 1975 Mavrina Tatyana, the angry and sharp critic on language, writes...