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I think this site is really interesting because it lists a number of men who have been into space but are also artists. At the bottom of the page is a link to the Russian Space Art Gallery. This is almost the opposite of what they're trying to do but the combination of cosmonaut and artist intrigues me, these men have an effect on the cultural world through their own experience of being in space. Traditionally I think there was always quite a link in Russia between culture and space exploration, probably because of the cold war and the effect it had on the inhabitants of the country and the artistic community but it was a link between art and technology and the development of science in general.
There is also a great tradition of having artists and writers in residence to observe scientific discovery and document it in a cultural sense. There's a list of opportunities on this site. That's what makes it so sad and short-sighted that they took NASA's AIR away. |
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