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Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
Illustrator
Land Artist
Poet
Visual Artist
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
Carl André
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Socialist
Abstract
Yeah
Demoralize
Art
Lenin
Thought
Proletariat
Bourgeois
Realism

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