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 | | In 1973, while applying for a visa to emigrate to Israel, Lamm was arrested and sentenced to three years of imprisonment, two in Moscow's Butyrka Prison and one in a labor camp. |
 | | This painting depicts the identical, tiny box-like compartments where prisoners were held before being taken to court. |
 | | He said, "The paradox was that the geometry utilized by the Suprematists, and standing for the symbol of freedom against the backdrop of Socialist realism, acquired an ambivalent meaning for me in the design of a prison interior." The square, a form popular with the Suprematists, came to be a symbol of Lamm's imprisonment. |
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