"Our native antiquity" : archaeology and aesthetics in the culture of Russian modernism / Michael Kunichika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunichika, Michael, author.

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures, and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russians--Origin.

Russians.

Russia--Antiquities.

Russia.

Russia--Civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they found objects and sites long denigrated as archaeological curiosities. The book follows the exemplary careers of two objects-the so-called "Stone Women" and the kurgan, or burial mound-and the attention paid to them by Russian and Soviet archaeologists, writers, artists, and filmmakers, for whom these artifacts served as resources for modernist art and letters and as arenas for a contest between vying conceptions of Russian art, culture, and history.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter One The Archaeology of the Stone Babas and the Modernist Inheritance

Chapter Two A Cultural Poetics of the Kurgan

Chapter Three Ancient Statues, Ancient Terrors

Chapter Four How a Modernist Artifact Is Made: The "Native Antiquity" of the Stone Babas and the Indigenization of Cubism

Chapter Five Velimir Khlebnikov, Poet of the Stone Babas

Chapter Six The Landmarks of Time: Burial Mounds, Eurasian Necropolises, and Modernist Form in Boris Pil'niak's The Naked Year

Chapter Seven Areas of Deformation

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61811-442-5

OCLC:

945564245