{"id":494,"date":"2011-10-23T09:43:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T09:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/?p=494"},"modified":"2011-10-23T09:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T09:43:30","slug":"if-you-go-looking-for-political-meaning-you-can-always-find-it-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-you-don%e2%80%99t-ilya-kabakov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/23\/if-you-go-looking-for-political-meaning-you-can-always-find-it-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-you-don%e2%80%99t-ilya-kabakov\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If you go looking for political meaning you can always find it. If you don\u2019t, you don\u2019t.&#8221; &#8211; Ilya Kabakov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/Untitled-IIya-Kabakov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-495\" src=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/files\/2011\/10\/Untitled-IIya-Kabakov-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Ilya Kabakov is a Russian artist who has traditionally been seen as an anti-Soviet dissident. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/10\/22\/ilya-kabakov-s-anti-soviet-art-wasn-t-political.html\">article<\/a>\u00a0from the Daily Beast explains how <em>&#8220;after Stalin died in 1953, the frozen Soviet Union saw Khrushchev\u2019s Thaw. Artists and intellectuals found themselves suddenly uncensored, which catalyzed an unprecedented period of creative experimentation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was all to be short-lived, but at least it gives us an insight into Khrushchev and the\u00a0recurring concepts of repression and reform in the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ilya Kabakov is a Russian artist who has traditionally been seen as an anti-Soviet dissident. This article\u00a0from the Daily Beast explains how &#8220;after Stalin died in 1953, the frozen Soviet Union saw Khrushchev\u2019s Thaw. Artists and intellectuals found themselves suddenly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/2011\/10\/23\/if-you-go-looking-for-political-meaning-you-can-always-find-it-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-you-don%e2%80%99t-ilya-kabakov\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}