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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KikoBlueEyes, post: 3838076, member: 8363&quot;]<a href="https://cherrycache.org/tag/russian-lacquer-miniatures/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cherrycache.org/tag/russian-lacquer-miniatures/" rel="nofollow">russian lacquer miniatures – Cherry&#039;s Cache (cherrycache.org)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This link has a detailed discussion and a short comment about Lipestk, as follows</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Some years ago, the Soviet government tried to artificially create a fifth centre of folk art in the industrial city of Lipetsk. Artists were tempted to re-settle there with promises of modern flats, bathrooms and running water (luxuries not available in the ‘izba’). Sadly, the experiment was a failure; nothing new or creative has emerged from Lipetsk, and it now turns out low quality miniatures for the tourist market. The artists who moved there could never return, and gradually they lost both their individual creativity and the vital link into the main body of the art.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>While I don&#039;t think my box is modern, this is a sad commentary on state managed collectives.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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