Author: David Carlton FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Exhibiting Russia at the World's Fairs, 1851-1900
Author: David Carlton FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art
Author: Roann BarrisPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100092761X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War. Because this history reflects changes in museological theory and the role of governments in facilitating or preventing intercultural cooperation, it uncovers a story that is far more complex than a chronological listing of exhibition names and art works. Roann Barris considers questions of stylistic appropriations and influences and the role of museum exhibitions in promoting international and artistic exchanges. Barris reveals that Soviet and American exchanges in the world of art were extensive and persistent despite political disagreements before, during, and after the Cold War. It also reveals that these early exhibitions communicated contradictory and historically invalid pictures of the Russian or Soviet avant-garde. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and Russian studies.
A History of Russian Exposition and Festival Architecture
Author: Alla AronovaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315461838
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the Sochi Winter Olympics. The forms and the circumstances of their design were drastically different; however, the projects discussed in the book share a common feature: they have been instrumental in the construction of Russia’s national identity, with its perception of the West - simultaneously, a foe and a paragon - looming high over this process. The book offers a history of multidirectional relationships between diplomacy, propaganda, and architecture.
When Art Makes News
Author: Katia DianinaPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1609090756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
From the time the word kul'tura entered the Russian language in the early nineteenth century, Russian arts and letters have thrived on controversy. At any given time several versions of culture have coexisted in the Russian public sphere. The question of what makes something or someone distinctly Russian was at the core of cultural debates in nineteenth-century Russia and continues to preoccupy Russian society to the present day. When Art Makes News examines the development of a public discourse on national self-representation in nineteenth-century Russia, as it was styled by the visual arts and popular journalism. Katia Dianina tells the story of the missing link between high art and public culture, revealing that art became the talk of the nation in the second half of the nineteenth century in the pages of mass-circulation press. At the heart of Dianina's study is a paradox: how did culture become the national idea in a country where few were educated enough to appreciate it? Dianina questions the traditional assumptions that culture in tsarist Russia was built primarily from the top down and classical literature alone was responsible for imagining the national community. When Art Makes News will appeal to all those interested in Russian culture, as well as scholars and students in museum and exhibition studies.
Russian Archaism
Author: Irina ShevelenkoPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501776355
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Russian Archaism considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in relation to the nation-building ideas that spread in the late imperial period. Irina Shevelenko argues that the cultural milieu in Russia, where the modernist movement began as an extension of Western trends at the end of the nineteenth century, soon became captivated by nationalist indoctrination. Members of artistic groups, critics, and theorists advanced new interpretations of the goals of aesthetic experimentation that would allow them to embed the nation-building agenda within the aesthetic one. Shevelenko's book focuses on the period from the formation of the World of Art group (1898) through the Great War and encompasses visual arts, literature, music, and performance. As Shevelenko shows, it was the rejection of the Russian westernized tradition, informed by the revival of populist sensibilities across the educated class, that played a formative role in the development of Russian modernist agendas, particularly after the 1905 revolution. Russian Archaism reveals the modernist artistic enterprise as a crucial source of insight into Russia's political and cultural transformation in the early twentieth century and beyond.
Russia under Western Eyes
Author: Martin E MaliaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674040481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.
London 1851: the Year of the Great Exhibition
Author: Eric Samuel De MaréPublisher: London : Folio Society
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
Author: World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Chicago
Author: Russia. General'nyĭ kommisar russkago otdi︠e︡la vsemïrnoĭ kolumbovoĭ vystavki v ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
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