Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Search for a National Image in Art Industry of USSR (Using Example of Assortment of “Ural Stonecutter” Factory in 1960s and 1980s)

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Search for a National Image in Art Industry of USSR (Using Example of Assortment of “Ural Stonecutter” Factory in 1960s and 1980s)

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2026 19 (2)
Authors: Vinokurov, Sergey Ye.
Contact information: Vinokurov, Sergey Ye. : Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation); ; ORCID: 0000-0001-7548-8651
Keywords: decorative art; stone-carving art; art industry of USSR; “Ural Stonecutter” factory; Russian style; national identity; regional identity
Abstract: The article examines the process of searching and analyzing ways to embody the national image using the example of the activities of the leading art enterprise of the Kama Region in the 1960s and 1980s, “Ural Stonecutter” factory. The examples analyzed in the article, information about which was revealed in the factory archive, are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. It is shown how the masters come to embody folk types, folklore heroes, and, ultimately, turn to images significant for the region from the methods of adapting the forms of Russian antiquities that were established in the previous pre-revolutionary period. As a result, the author concludes that the image of regional identity is important in the context of the late Soviet experience of visualizing the search for a national image, and also confirms the thesis about the revival of the Russian style in Russian art in the 1960s and 1980s
Pages: 447–459
EDN: XKAFOQ
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/158165