Picturing Russia's men : masculinity and modernity in nineteenth-century painting / Allison Leigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leigh, Allison, 1983- author.

Contributor:

Henry Putney Beers Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bri︠u︡llov, Karl Pavlovich, 1799-1852--Criticism and interpretation.

Bri︠u︡llov, Karl Pavlovich.

Fedotov, Pavel Andreevich, 1815-1852--Criticism and interpretation.

Fedotov, Pavel Andreevich.

Ivanov, Aleksandr Andreevich, 1806-1858--Criticism and interpretation.

Ivanov, Aleksandr Andreevich.

Kramskoĭ, Ivan Nikolaevich, 1837-1887--Criticism and interpretation.

Kramskoĭ, Ivan Nikolaevich.

Repin, Ilʹi︠a︡ Efimovich, 1844-1930--Criticism and interpretation.

Repin, Ilʹi︠a︡ Efimovich.

Masculinity in art.

Painting, Russian--19th century--Themes, motives.

Painting, Russian.

Modernism (Art)--Russia.

Modernism (Art).

Art and society--Russia--History--19th century.

Art and society.

Painting, Russian--Themes, motives.

Russia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023.

Summary:

"The sense of estrangement felt by men during the nineteenth century has been called many things - a crisis in masculinity, the mal de siècle, even a psychological disorder known as neurasthenia - but as a phenomenon, such masculine discontent has gone largely unexplored outside of the western European and American contexts. In this ground-breaking new investigation, Allison Leigh explores how Russian painters sought to depict the new psychological struggles associated with modernity and the implications such visual manifestations of anxiety had for masculinity at the time. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including previously untranslated letters, journals, and contemporary criticism, Leigh investigates how men's lives changed as they experienced the cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. In so doing, she introduces readers to Russian artists such as Pavel Fedotov, Karl Briullov, Il'ia Repin, and Ivan Kramskoi, all of whom produced masterpieces of realist art in dialogue with paintings made in European artistic centers at the time. The result is a more culturally discursive account of art-making in the nineteenth century, one that challenges some of the enduring myths of masculinity and provides a fresh interpretive history of what constitutes modernism in the history of art"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1 Autocratic masculinity

Karl Briullov: fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons

Pavel Fedotov: comrade, captain, artist

Part 2 Homosociality and homoeroticism

Alexander Ivanov: desire and the male nude

Artel of Artists: envisioning the bonds of men

Part 3 Modern women and their wounded men

Ivan Kramskoi: painting women, known and unknown

Ilia Repin: on masculine vulnerability

Conclusion.

Notes:

Originally published: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.

ISBN:

9781350282742

135028274X

OCLC:

1346935643

Publisher Number:

99993853638