Queer(ing) Russian Art : Realism, Revolution, Performance / edited by Brian James Baer and Yevgeniy Fiks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fiks, Yevgeniy, editor.

Baer, Brian James, editor.

Series:

Myths and taboos in Russian culture.

Myths and Taboos in Slavic Cultures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality in art.

Sex and art.

Sexual minorities in art.

LGBTQ+ people in visual art.

Queer people in visual art.

Queer art .

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brighton : Academic Studies Press, [2023]

Summary:

Standing at the intersection of Visual Studies and Queer Studies, the volume Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance exposes and explores the queer imagery and sensibilities in works of visual art in pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and beneath the surface of conventional histories of Russian art.

Contents:

Intro

Front Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part One. Theoretical Framings

1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty

Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context

2. "In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass": Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-Century Russian Art

3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov's Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love

4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov

5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka's Wartime Drawings

6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein's Homoerotic Drawings

7. Moscow Conceptualism's Erotic Objects

8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryanov

9. A Russian Schizorevolution? Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s

10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva's Art

11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe

12. "My Nationaliti Is My Sexuality": The Post-Soviet, Diasporic, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov

Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists

13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: The Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze

14. Soviet Union, July 1991

15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya's Material Evidence

16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene

17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent

18. A Queer (Re)claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview with Slava Mogutin.

19. "Queer and Russian Art?" A Conversation between Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Godovannaya

20. Queering Sexual Minorities: An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-87192-52-9

OCLC:

1394118934