Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Sots art sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Sots art (1972 – 1990s), it traces three movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Conceptual art, Pop art and Socialist realism.
Often referred to as “Soviet Pop Art”, Sots Art or Soc Art (Russian: Соц-арт, short for Socialist Art) originated in the Soviet Union during the period dubbed the "Era of Stagnation", under Leonid Brezhnev's leadership (1964-1982) as a reaction against the official aesthetic doctrine of the state - socialist realism, which was marked by reverential depictions of workers, peasants living happily in their communes. The goal of Sots Art was to fight against the bureaucratic manipulation and state propaganda by deconstructing myths and stereotypes from the previous art movement as well as how official art limited artists expression. Sots Art often portrayed taboo subjects as an opposition to the communistic regime. Read more ↗