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From Realism to the Silver Age New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture / edited by Rosalind P. Blakesley and Margaret Samu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samu, Margaret, Author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Harriman Institute.
- Studies of the Harriman Institute
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Silver age (Russian arts).
- Realism in art--Russia--History.
- Realism in art.
- Art, Russian--Russia--History--20th century.
- Art, Russian.
- Art, Russian--Russia--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- This volume of thirteen essays presents rigorous new research by western and Russian scholars on Russian art of the nienteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Over More than three decades after the publication of Elizabeth Valkenier's pioneering monograph, Russian Realist Art, this impressive collection showcases the latest methodology and subjects of inquiry, expanding the parameters of what has become an area of enormous intellectual and popular appeal. Major artists including Ilia Repin, Valentin Serov, and Wassily Kandinsky are considered afresh, as are the Peredvizhnik and Mir iskusstva movements and the Abramtsevo community. The book also breaks new ground to embrace subjects such as Russian graphic satire and children's book illustration, as well as stimulating aspects of patronage and display. Collectively, the essays include a range of approaches, from close textual readings to institutional critique. They also develop major themes inspired by Valkenier's work, among them: the emergence and evolution of cultural institutions, the development of aesthetic discourse and artistic terminology, debates between the Academy of Arts and its challengers, art criticism and the Russian press, and the resonance of various forms of nationalism within the art world. These and other questions engage multiple disciplines—those of art history, Slavic Russian studies, and cultural history, among others—and promise to fuel a vibrant and ascendant field.
- Contents:
- Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier and the world of Russian art / Ronald Meyer
- Introduction / Rosalind P. Blakesley and Margaret Samu
- Academic foot soldier or nationalist warhorse?: the Moscow school of painting and sculpture, 1843-1861 / Rosalind P. Blakesley
- The brothers Konstantin and Vladimir Makovskii: one family, two fates / Elena Nesterova
- Making a case for realism: the female nude in Russian satirical images of the 1860s / Margaret Samu
- The Abramtsevo circle: founding principles and aesthetic direction / Eleonora Paston
- Tolstoy, Ge, and two Pilates: a tale of the interarts / Jefferson J.A. Gatrall
- Painting history, realistically / Molly Brunson
- The contemporary reception of Ilia Repin's solo exhibition of 1891 / Galina Churak
- Pavel Tretiakov's icons / Wendy Salmond
- Closing the books on peredvizhnichestvo: Mir Iskusstva's long farewell to Russian realism / Janet Kennedy
- Serov, Bakst, and the reinvention of Russia's classical heritage / Alison Hilton
- Between East and West: the search for national identity in Russian illustrated children's books, 1800-1917 / Alla Rosenfeld
- Kandinsky's study for "Composition no. II" 1909-1910: a theosophical reading / Marian Burleigh-Motley
- Things that are not: Marianne Werefkin and the condition of silence / John E. Bowlt.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87580-703-8
- 1-5017-5704-0
- OCLC:
- 1203952261
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