Esthetic of the past
Soviet Union had its own understanding of beauty. It was deeply interlinked with ideology. Then “perestroika” came and enabled western popular esthetics to start it’s cultural occupation.
SU was very radical and very totalitarian. Esthetics had its own position in the global system of communism.
Than system collapsed and neo-capitalism emerged. While openly accepting all the visual crap brought by western media and businesses and appearance of new-old nations (as Ukrainian), understanding of what is the common esthetics (of each newly born countries) is very hard.
Why?
- Because the new elected government wants to amplify the ethno stylistics and esthetics.
- Lack of good promoters of new stylistics and visual styles
- Redundancy of good style
- Lack of educated elites
- Controversial elites
- Poor living standards (strongest motivation is money and not beauty)
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