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Russian Orientalism in a global context : hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940 / edited by Maria Taroutina and Allison Leigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rethinking art's histories.
- Rethinking Art's Histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Russian--18th century.
- Art, Russian.
- Art, Russian--19th century.
- Art, Russian--20th century.
- Orientalism in art.
- Orientalism--Russia--History--18th century.
- Orientalism.
- Orientalism--Russia--History--19th century.
- Orientalism--Russia--History--20th century.
- Orientalism--Soviet Union.
- Asia--Civilization--Russian influences.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour); digital file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Biography/History:
- Maria Taroutina is Associate Professor of Art History at Yale–NUS College in Singapore.
- Allison Leigh is Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
- Summary:
- This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-18th century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Accounting for human diversity: the experience of Imperial Russia / Vera Tolz
- Introduction / Maria Taroutina
- 1. Western or non-Western? The case of Russian art / Allison Leigh
- 2. Perceptions of China and Russian chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth Petrovna / Ekaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam
- 3. “The picturesque Caucasus” of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii TimmAndrew M. Need
- 4. From the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Karl Rakhau’s orientalizing interiors / Katrin Kaufmann
- 5. The Orient estranged: Vasilii Vereshchagin’s <i>Blowing from Guns in British India / John Webley
- 6. The man in the purple coat: art and empire in Ilia Repin’s <i>Reception of Volost Elders / Nikita Balagurov
- 7. How the Orient was Russianized: texts, images, and the popular imagination from Eruslan Lazarevich to Ruslan and Liudmila / Hanna Chuchvaha
- 8. From Zen Buddhism to the “zero of form”: exoticism, mysticism, and the East in Kazimir Malevich’s early works / Maria Taroutina
- 9. Pavel Kuznetsov’s “distant and strange” agricultural laborers / Marie Gasper-Hulvat
- 10. Soviet propaganda posters and Islamic art: mobilizing artistic heritage in 1920s Uzbekistan / Mollie Arbuthnot
- Afterword: Peripheral horizons: Russian Orientalism in a global context / Mary Roberts
- Index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9781526166227
- 1526166224
- 9781526179715
- 1526179717
- 9781526166241
- 1526166240
- OCLC:
- 1415748426
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