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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920 : art, life & culture of the Russian silver age / John E. Bowlt.
Fine Arts Library NX556.A1 B678 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowlt, John E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts, Russian--20th century.
- Arts, Russian.
- Modernism (Aesthetics)--Russia--History--20th century.
- Modernism (Aesthetics).
- History.
- Russia--Civilization--1801-1917.
- Russia.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 395 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Moscow and St. Petersburg 1900-1920
- Moscow & Saint Petersburg 1900-1920
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vendome Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- A double-headed eagle : Russia, land of paradox
- Azure heights, sapphire depths : philosophical concepts of the Russian silver age
- The shock of the new : technology, science, engineering
- The style moderne : Russian refractions of art nouveau
- The world of art : Sergei Diaghilev and his circle
- Flowers, flowers to cover the tomb! : blooms of decadence
- Body art : ballet, theater, cabaret, nudism
- Aesthetes and barbarians : Apollo and the suicide of art
- The year 1913 : crossroads of past and future
- Apocalypse now : war, revolution, and cultural centrifuge.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-387) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780865651913
- 0865651914
- 0865651841
- 9780865651845
- OCLC:
- 212893668
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