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The icon and the square : Russian modernism and the Russo-Byzantine revival
In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of the twentieth century through a shared interest in the Byzantine past, offering a counternarrative to prevailing notions of Russian modernism.Focusing on the works of four different artists—Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Tatlin—Taroutina shows how engagement with medieval pictorial traditions drove each artist to transform his own practice, pushing beyond the established boundaries of his respective artistic and intellectual milieu. She also contextualizes and complements her study of the work of these artists with an examination of the activities of a number of important cultural associations and institutions over the course of several decades. As a result, The Icon and the Square gives a more complete picture of Russian modernism: one that attends to the dialogue between generations of artists, curators, collectors, critics, and theorists.The Icon and the Square retrieves a neglected but vital history that was deliberately suppressed by the atheist Soviet regime and subsequently ignored in favor of the secular formalism of mainstream modernist criticism. Taroutina’s timely study, which coincides with the centennial reassessments of Russian and Soviet modernism, is sure to invigorate conversation among scholars of art history, modernism, and Russian culture.
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The Hand at Work
Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making as well as the perception of literature and the arts.
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The Cambridge companion to modern Russian culture
\"Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture and the unique Russian contributions to the arts. Each of the eleven chapters has been revised or entirely rewritten to take account of current cultural conditions and the further reading brought up to date. The book reveals, for students, academic researchers and all those interested in Russia, the dilemmas, strengths and complexities of the Russian cultural experience\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Queer(ing) Russian Art
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.
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The Icon and the Square
In The Icon and the Square , Maria Taroutina examines
how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown,
the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned
with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the
turn of the twentieth century through a shared interest in the
Byzantine past, offering a counternarrative to prevailing notions
of Russian modernism.
Focusing on the works of four different artists-Mikhail Vrubel,
Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Tatlin-Taroutina
shows how engagement with medieval pictorial traditions drove each
artist to transform his own practice, pushing beyond the
established boundaries of his respective artistic and intellectual
milieu. She also contextualizes and complements her study of the
work of these artists with an examination of the activities of a
number of important cultural associations and institutions over the
course of several decades. As a result, The Icon and the
Square gives a more complete picture of Russian modernism: one
that attends to the dialogue between generations of artists,
curators, collectors, critics, and theorists.
The Icon and the Square retrieves a neglected but vital
history that was deliberately suppressed by the atheist Soviet
regime and subsequently ignored in favor of the secular formalism
of mainstream modernist criticism. Taroutina's timely study, which
coincides with the centennial reassessments of Russian and Soviet
modernism, is sure to invigorate conversation among scholars of art
history, modernism, and Russian culture.
eBook
The magical chorus : a history of Russian culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
\"From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to created some of the greatest masterpieces of our time. Epic in scope and intimate in detail, The Magical Chorus is the definitive account of a remarkable era in Russia's complex cultural life.\"--Book cover.
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Andrey Rublev
A critical biography of the most celebrated religious icon painter in medieval Russia. A monk from Moscow, Andrey Rublev (c.1360–c.1430) is heralded as the greatest painter of religious icons and frescos in medieval Russia. Nevertheless, his life remains largely mysterious to historians and devotees alike. In this book, Robin Milner-Gulland provides the first English-language account of the artist's life as a window into the world of medieval Moscow. Beautifully illustrated with previously unpublished images, Andrey Rublev offers an accessible introduction to the artist's medieval world and his continuing significance today.
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