The diaries of Nikolay Punin : 1904-1953 / edited by Sidney Monas and Jennifer Greene Krupala ; translated by Jennifer Greene Krupala.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Punin, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich)

Contributor:

Monas, Sidney, editor.

Krupala, Jennifer Greene, 1967- editor, translator.

Series:

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punin, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich)--Diaries.

Punin, N. N.

Art critics--Russia (Federation)--Diaries.

Art critics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1999.

Summary:

Nikolay Punin (1888-1953) was the most articulate Russian/Soviet art critic of the 1920s. He strongly advocated Constructivism, an avant-garde impulse that favored mechanomorphic abstraction and proclaimed a movement to bring art into the center of popular life. In the United States, he is perhaps best remembered for his love affair with Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the first English translation of ten diary notebooks that Punin wrote between 1915 and 1936, as well as selections from his earlier (1904-1910) and later (1941-1946) diaries and some thirty notes and letters relating to his affair with Anna Akhmatova. These materials offer a rare glimpse into the life of art and artists in Russia. They also present vivid scenes from the 1905 Revolution, World War I, the 1917 Revolutions, World War II, and Stalinist oppression through the reflections of a talented man, who, unlike many of his generation, lived to tell the tale.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introductory Essay: Nikolay Punin and Russian Futurism

Introductory Essay: Punin and Akhmatova

Note on the Translation

Early Materials from the Punin Diaries, 1904-1910

Notebook One, 1915-1917

I Notebook Two, 1919 -1920

Notebook Three, 1920

Notebook Four, 1921-1922

Notebook Five, 1922-1923

Notebook Six, 1923-1924

Notebook Seven, 1924

Notebook Eight, 1924-1925

Notebook Nine, 1925-1926

Notebook Ten, 1936

Late Materials from the Punin Diaries, 1941-1952

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-76390-5

OCLC:

1286805887