Re: "I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist struct ure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objec t s in order to live." (Sol LeWitt)

[Michael Brady]

Go ahead -- just pick one example -- and tell us the story.

Hey, Boris. Go ahead. Copy off my paper.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn (and the Nobel prize)
Russian Avant Garde artist of the early 1900s, who fled to Western  
Europe
Prokofiev
Sakhrov, if you consider nuclear physics art
Russian Writers Union
Yevtushenko