Putin Art

[Alina Israeli]

Considering the punishment any comparison of Putin with an elected  
leader elsewhere is inappropriate. The Russian law is equal to lèse- 
majesté (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9), which  
only four out of 10 European monarchies still have on the books, hence  
Putin should be compared to a monarch, preferably of Asian variety.


On Sep 1, 2013, at 6:00 AM, Michele A Berdy wrote:
>
> But the biggest difference is in the consequences for the art and  
> artist. In
> the case of Altunin - and here I must assume people don't know this,  
> or they
> wouldn't have written what they did - the paintings were confiscated  
> and are
> being analyzed for extremism. That could land Altunin in jail for  
> two years.
> Or there might be an "insult to the feelings of believers" in the  
> painting
> of the Patriarch. That's another year in jail. Or it might be  
> "slander of
> officials" in all of them. He might face a serious jail term for his
> paintings. I don't think there were any consequences for the artists  
> in the
> US (somewhere there may have been pornography charges, but not, I  
> think, in
> any cases of depictions of political figures).
>
>

Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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