Igor Golomstock obituary

Cultural historian who explored the use of similar art to promote differing totalitarian regimesThe art historian Igor Golomstock, who has died aged 88, is best known for his book Totalitarian Art (1990), the first serious study of the similarities between the socialist realist art of Stalinist Russia and the art of Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and Maoist China, an area of debate long considered taboo in Igor’s native country, Russia.Igor argued that totalitarian art was not so much an arti