Soviet Arts Experience brings more than five exhibitions about the art of the USSR to Chicago this fall.

"Vision and Communism" at the Smart Museum

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  Victor Koretsky, Africa Fights, Africa Will Win! (detail), 1971, from "Vision and Communism".

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  Victor Koretsky, Brotherhood and Equality Among All Nations! (detail), c. 1960s, from "Vision and Communism".

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  Viktor Koretsky, A Solid Peace for the World! (detail), 1965, from "Vision and Communism".

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Victor Koretsky, Africa Fights, Africa Will Win! (detail), 1971, from "Vision and Communism".

Photo: Courtesy of the Ne boltai! Collection

“Vision and Communism”
Smart Museum of Art, through January 22.
What it’s about
In the 1960s and 1970s, Viktor Koretsky’s “avant-garde late Communist art” depicted the struggle against racism and imperialism outside the USSR.
Why you should see it
The catalog says the interracial harmony of posters such as A Solid Peace for the World anticipates “the visual languages of Benetton and MTV” by decades.
Where to learn more
Four of the show’s cocurators participate in the Agitation! symposium Friday 14.