In London, art critic Igor Golomstok is killed

On July 12, art critic Igor Naumovich Golomstok died in a London hospital. He was 88 years old.

The father of Golomstok, engineer Naum Kodzhak, who came from the Crimean Karaites family, was arrested in 1934, and the son was given the surname of his mother.

Golomstatka worked in restoration workshops and in the department of mobile exhibitions of the Ministry of Culture, in the Fine Museum named after Pushkin.

Part of the artistic books of the Golomstok was published, including the first Soviet book about Pablo Picasso (co -authored with Andrei Sinyavsky), but the main works were subjected to ideological persecutions - for example, the album of Paul Cesanne, the monograph "Aesthetic nature of the trends in modern foreign art", and the book about Jeronym Boshas was published under the pseudonym emigration of the author.

The persecution of Golomstok was caused not only by the fact that he defended his friend Sinyavsky in court, but also by the fact that he defended the independence of his views in the field of art history.

Since 1972, Golomstok lived in England, wrote about totalitarian art, was published in the magazines "Continent", "Syntax", made translations, performed at the BBC and Radio Liberty, where two years ago in the program "Myths and Reputation" he presented the book of his memoirs "The lesson for the old city: memoirs of the Pessimist."