Rostislav Lebedev

b. 1946

Rostislav Lebedev is an established contemporary artist. Rostislav Lebedev was born in 1946. Artists born in

the same year and of the same generation are Michael Macmillian, Stephenie Bergman, Slobodan Ivankovitch,

Roland Holzner, and Karin Bengts.

Born in 1946, Rostislav Lebedev was as deeply indebted to the events of the 1960s as their formative influenc-

es. The astronomical impact of the 1960s was truly sensational across the globe. Representative of a time stir-

ring both hope and anger, the 1960s prompted an outburst of cutting-edge philosophies and movements, truly

sensational and spectacular. Historically established in the context of the Cold War, which would have a highly

powerful impact internationally, mainly defined by the Iron Curtain dividing Europe both physically and spiri-

tually, and significantly marked by the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The 1960s re-defined all pre-existing

assumptions on gender, race and justice, questioned education as well as morality and selfhood – for instance

through the civil rights movement and second wave of feminism, as well as student political uprisings.