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Author: Rena Lavery Publisher: Unicorn ISBN: 9781911604761 Category : Art and society Languages : en Pages : 0
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This newpublication provides a cross-disciplinary examination of early 20thcentury feminism and gender politics in the Soviet Union in relation to therise and development of prominent female artists and sculptors. The book coversthe period from the end of WWI and pre-Revolutionary Russia to Gorbachev's perestroikaand the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It consists of a collection of essaysby leading specialists in the field, academics and independent scholars,covering major events in Soviet history, art and culture and exploring the roleof women in society, the representation of women in art, and discussing theoeuvre and artistic practices of Soviet female artists. The bookinitially examines the emergence of prominent female artists, leaders of theAvant-garde movement in the 1910s-1920s. Following this, a chapter delves intoStalin's era which saw only a handful of outstanding female artists such as V.Mukhina rising to the top of the cultural artistic elite. Many of the femaleartists and sculptors were driven into obscurity and mainly worked as stagedesigners or book illustrators. Then the book focuses on the arrival ofKhrushchev's Thaw which temporarily and partially relieved the oppressive rolethat the Communist Party played in all domains of life in the Soviet Union andin the creative process in particular. This led to the emergence ofNonconformists, a new wave of artists, and quite a few of them were women.
Author: Rena Lavery Publisher: Unicorn ISBN: 9781911604761 Category : Art and society Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This newpublication provides a cross-disciplinary examination of early 20thcentury feminism and gender politics in the Soviet Union in relation to therise and development of prominent female artists and sculptors. The book coversthe period from the end of WWI and pre-Revolutionary Russia to Gorbachev's perestroikaand the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It consists of a collection of essaysby leading specialists in the field, academics and independent scholars,covering major events in Soviet history, art and culture and exploring the roleof women in society, the representation of women in art, and discussing theoeuvre and artistic practices of Soviet female artists. The bookinitially examines the emergence of prominent female artists, leaders of theAvant-garde movement in the 1910s-1920s. Following this, a chapter delves intoStalin's era which saw only a handful of outstanding female artists such as V.Mukhina rising to the top of the cultural artistic elite. Many of the femaleartists and sculptors were driven into obscurity and mainly worked as stagedesigners or book illustrators. Then the book focuses on the arrival ofKhrushchev's Thaw which temporarily and partially relieved the oppressive rolethat the Communist Party played in all domains of life in the Soviet Union andin the creative process in particular. This led to the emergence ofNonconformists, a new wave of artists, and quite a few of them were women.
Author: Renee Baigell Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813529462 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 196
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How do women artists in Russia, Estonia and Latvia view themselves in the post-Soviet era? What is their relationship to feminism and how has that relationship changed following the fall of the Soviet regime? Having conducted over 60 interviews between 1995 and 1998, Renee and Matthew Baigell explore in this volume these women's difficulties of pursuing an art career in a male-dominated society, and the attitudes of their male counterparts toward feminist concerns.
Author: Julia L. Mickenberg Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022625612X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 436
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If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the “Soviet experiment.” But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities—many recently unveiled—became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg’s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.
Author: Matthew S. Witkovsky Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300225717 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 325
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Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.
Author: Marilyn Rueschemeyer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315288915 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 154
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The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.
Author: Margarita Tupitsyn Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300179758 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 278
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A comprehensive survey of art in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union that champions the unquenchable spirit of artistic experimentation in the face of political repression Ambitious and interdisciplinary, Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922-1992 tells the story of generations of artists who resisted Soviet dictates on aesthetics, spanning the Russian avant-garde, socialist realism, and Soviet postwar art in one volume. Drawing on art history, criticism, and political theory, Margarita Tupitsyn unites these three epochs, mapping their differences and commonalities, ultimately reconnecting the postwar vanguard with the historical avant-garde. With a focus on Moscow artists, the book chronicles how this milieu achieved institutional and financial independence, and reflects on the theoretical and visual models it generated in various media, including painting, photography, conceptual, performance, and installation art. Generously illustrated, this ground-breaking volume, published in the year that marks the centennial of the October Revolution, demonstrates that, regardless of political repression, the spirit of artistic experiment never ceased to exist in the Soviet Union.