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Rosalind Blakesley - Russian Art and the West - 9780875803609 - V9780875803609
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Russian Art and the West

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Description for Russian Art and the West Hardcover. With topics ranging from fine art to architecture and the decorative arts, this collection of essays examines the ways Russian artists and craftsmen adopted and adapted Western forms, creating uniquely Russian visual expressions. The tin frame stretches from the end of the nineteenth century through Russia's Silver Age to the Khrushchev era. Editor(s): Blakesley, Rosalind P.; Reid, Susan E. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; ACV; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.

This book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place between Russia and the West—in particular with the United States, Britain, and France—from the 1860s to the Khrushchev Thaw. Offering stimulating new readings of cross-cultural exchange, it illuminates Russia's compelling, and sometimes combative, relation with western art in this period of profound cultural transformation.

Russian Art and the West breaks new ground in the range of its material and its chronological span. Attending both to vanguard tendencies and to the official artistic institutions and practices of the tsarist and Soviet eras, it casts light on seminal developments little studied in ... Read more

The book's eleven essays by leading experts on Russian art and design explore painting, architecture, and the decorative arts, considering not only the objects but also the patrons, audiences, exhibitions, and critical readings that together shaped national culture in an international context. Written in an accessible style and encompassing a variety of approaches, they collectively rethink conventional polarities and influences, and unpack the myths of separateness and isolation so often associated with artistic endeavor in late imperial or Soviet Russia.

This illustrated volume will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers seeking to understand the fuller context of Russian artistic culture during a remarkable century of social and political change.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875803609
SKU
V9780875803609
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About Rosalind Blakesley
Rosalind P. Blakesley is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Cambridge, UK. Susan E. Reid is Senior Lecturer in Russian Visual Arts at University of Sheffield, UK.

Reviews for Russian Art and the West
A richly textured account. This book would be valuable for its information and bibliographic aspects alone... but its underlying purpose is more ambitious.
Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas
Written in accessible style by scholars of Russian and Soviet art, this book will find a broad readership among art historians, students, and those interested in Russian and Soviet cultural history, ... Read more

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