"WHAT THE ARTIST A. GERASIMOV WANTED TO SAY WITH HIS PAINTING?": THE INTERPRETATION OF LANDSCAPE IN THE SOVIET CULTURE OF THE 1920-1930s
Based on the example of the work of A. Gerasimov «Chernozem» the article examines the changes in the perception of landscape genre in Soviet art. The painting that provoked severe criticism at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, few years later was described as a remarkable achievement of the artist. These attitude transformations clearly reflected the process of developing a new ideology and rhetoric of the landscape, which made it possible to integrate it into hierarchical structure of the Soviet painting genres.