The Impact of Political Repression on the Creative Artist

FAIN: FT-12402-75

Florence J. Cohen
Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, MD 21202-4606)

To interview Russian writers, poets, artists, and other people in creative fields in order to explore the impact of a restrictive society on the wellsprings of creative expression and artistic achievement. These artists will be interviewed for the second time by the grantee, this time 2 years after they have had an opportunity to realize life and work in a free society. These taped interviews will provide vital information for a book, titled, The Ma Tryeshka Doll: Artist as Echo, which will be completed in December 1975.