Aleksandr Abramovich Kamensky (Александр Абрамович Каменский) (1922–1992) was a

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art critic An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...

and art historian. In 1954 he wrote an important article attacking the art establishment under

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. he argued that artistic merit needed to be valued over ideological correctness. He would go on to write about and champion the works of artists such as

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, and

Martiros Saryan Martiros Saryan ( hy, Մարտիրոս Սարյան; russian: Мартиро́с Сарья́н; – 5 May 1972) was a Soviet Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting. Biography He was born into an Armenia ...

Selected bibliography

* ''Konenkov'' (1962) * ''Vernisages'' (1974) * ''Nathan Altman'' (1978) * ''Knightly Feat: A Book About The Sculpture of Anna Golubkina'' (1978) (reprinted as ''Anna Golubkina, Her Personality, And Age'' in 1990) * ''Etudes on the Artists of Armenia'' (Erevan, 1979) * ''Martiros Sarian'' (1987) * ''Chagall: The Russian Years 1907-1922'' (1988–1989) * ''Romantic Montage'' (1989) * ''The World of Art Movement in Early 20th Century Russia'' (with Vsevolod Nikolayevich Petrov) * ''Oleg Tselkov'' (1992) * ''Marc Chagall, An Artist From Russia'' (unabridged version of ''Chagall: The Russian Years'' published posthumously)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kamensky, Aleksandr Soviet art critics Soviet art historians Soviet male writers 1922 births 1992 deaths Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery