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Maker(s):Vassiliev, Oleg Vladimirovich
Culture:Soviet (1931-2013), active in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the United States
Title:The House with the Mezzanine, No. 22
Date Made:1991
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph on cream paper
Measurements:Sheet: 29 3/4 x 21 in.; 75.6 x 53.3 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2010.160
Credit Line:Gift of Joan Afferica, L. Clark Seelye Professor Emerita of History, Smith College
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The scene is set on Otkrytoe Road, a housing development on the outskirts of Moscow. Vassiliev's family moved there after their old house in downtown Moscow was scheduled for reconstruction. The artist depicts his experience of life in the 1970s, in which crowded buses and metro trains, long lines in grocery stores, people carrying heavy bags, and huge buildings with many small apartments were ubiquitous. The ideological background noise, indicated by the newspaper, extends here even to the celestial sphere. Although Vassiliev seems to render the busy street during a sunny day, the black sky conveys a sense of the arduousness of everyday life in the USSR.

BJ, 2013

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