Avanguardia, arte non conformista e guerra fredda. Franco Miele, un intellettuale italiano alla scoperta dell’arte sovietica

Abstract

The paper makes inquiries into the ‘Russian period’ (1965-1972) of prof. Franco Miele (1924-1983), who was a painter, art critic and art dealer. The paper sheds light on his work as a Russian art dealer and on his relationships with Paul Sjeklocha, Ely Bielutin, Otari Kandaurov, Kazimierz Romanowicz, and George Costakis.

Keywords

• soviet unofficial art
• soviet nonconformist art
• russian art dealer
• russian art collector
• italian democratic socialist party
• brezhnev era
• metaphysical painting
• cold war
• kgb
• cia