Russian sculptor Ernst Neizvestny publicly battled Nikita Khrushchev over so-called degenerate modern art and the right of the artist to depict the world however he chooses. “Why do you disfigure the faces of the Soviet people?” Khrushchev demanded after a 1962 exhibit of Neizvestny’s work. Ironically, at Khrushchev’s death, the…
