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Book SynopsisThis book is the first biography of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953). One of the most prominent art-critics of the avant-garde, in 1919 Punin was the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, he was lecturing at the Academy of Arts and at the State University in Petrograd (and subsequently Leningrad). He was the right hand of Lunacharsky and the head of the Petrograd branch of the Visual Arts Department of Narkompross. From 1913 till 1938, Punin worked at the Russian Museum and organized several major exhibitions of Russian art. Yet his name is not widely known in the West, primarily because his file languished in the KGB archives since he died in 1953, partly because his grave in the Gulag where he died is marked only by a number, and partly because his own reputation became submerged under that of his lover, poet and writer Anna Akhmatova. Through the life and inheritance of Nikolay Punin, this book will examine the very phenomenon of the Russian avant-garde and its fate after the October Revolution, as well as the artistic trends and cultural policies which dominated Soviet art in the 1930-1950s. For an interview with the author on The Voice of Russia (July 19th, 2012): click here.Trade Review"This is an important book that is extensively researched and well written. However, what makes this a significant text also is that the author had access to personal archives. The rich primary material here is taken predominately from the Punin archive held by the subject’s granddaughter, Anna Kaminskaya, and her son. Other useful sources are from the archive at the Akhmatova Museum. One of the strengths of the book is that Murray includes a large number of quotations from Punin’s beautifully written articles. She has also helpfully reproduced a full list of his books and articles at the end. Most of them have never been re-printed, or even translated from Russian, so she provides an invaluable service for other scholars. No doubt after this publication, further translations of his writings will be undertaken and other historians will be inspired to do more research on this great unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde." – Theodora Clarke, in: East-West Review: Journal of the Great Britain-Russia Society, Winter Edition 2012, p.39 Listen to the interview with author Natalia Murray on The Voice of RussiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: ORIGINS OF THE HERO 1. Punin’s background and origins. 2. The time in Tsarskoye Selo. PART II: EDUCATION 1. Studies and teachers. 2. Influences and interests. PART III: WINDS OF CHANGE FIRST WORLD WAR AND EMERGENCE OF THE NEW CREATIVITY IN RUSSIA 1. The breeding-ground – the last years of Imperial Russia. Foreign influences in Russian Art (French artists’ exhibitions). 2. Growth of interest in Russian art. Foundation of the Russian museum. 3. The First World War and promise of the revolution. 4. Ideas, ideas, ideas. The new faces. Punin and his role among them. 5. Private Life. Marriage and infidelity. PART IV: THE DAWN OF NEW HOPES. THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION AND THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ART. 1. The October Revolution. 2. The Proletarian Art enigma. 3. The fight against old art. 4. The saga of the statues. 5. Art and the State. PART V: NO FUTURE FOR THE FUTURISTS? ATTEMPTS TO EDUCATE THE MASSES. 1. Punin and the State Hermitage Museum. 2. The Art of the Commune. 3. Closure of Art of the Commune and the State’s first limitations of artistic freedom. PART VI: GATHERING CLOUDS, BUT HIGH HEART 1. Punin’s first arrest and first disillusionments. 2. Anna Akhmatova. 3. Ginkhuk and Tatlin. Punin’s lectures and courses. PART VII: THE SLOW STRANGULATION OF FREE CULTURE 1. The new rules emerging. 2. Keeping the flame high. Russian Museum exhibitions. 3. Events on the home front. Life in the Fountain House. PART VIII: THE VICTORY OF SOCIALIST REALISM 1. Punin’s last articles and exhibitions. From avant-garde to Socialist Realism. PART IX: TIME OF TERROR 1. Hard times. Attack on principles and individuals. 2. The second arrest of Nikolay Punin. 3. Life and work after the arrest. Separation from Akhmatova. The arrival of Martha Golubeva. PART X: THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1. Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Leningrad under siege. 2. Evacuation to Samarkand. 3. Return to the North. PART XI: THE BROKEN POST-WAR DREAMS 1. The post-war cultural scene. 2. Punin’s dismissal and criticism. PART XII: BITTER END 1. The final arrest and interrogations. 2. Life and death in the Gulag. Abbreviations and Notes. Bibliography of published writings of Nikolay Punin. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis biography of the musician Franz Liszt contributes to our understanding of national identity formation and its interaction with cosmopolitanism. Liszt exemplified the nineteenth-century quest for subjective definition and fulfillment. Seeking to gain agency, authority, and community, Liszt experimented with various subject positions from which to forward his goals. The stances he selected, anchored in ideas about nation, religion, and art, allowed him to retain his cosmopolitan sensibility while making specific aesthetic and creative claims. Quinn’s analysis of Liszt’s correspondence and musical criticism, as well as of contemporary reviews of his performances, compositions, and essays, demonstrates the lack of a nationalist exclusivity in Liszt’s life was a historical phenomenon rather than a personal quirk as previous scholarship has often claimed.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Illustrations ... viii List of Abbreviations ... ix Introduction ... 1 1 The Virtuoso Prophet ... 23 2 The Hungarian Patriot ... 64 3 The Romantic Hero and the Kulturnation ... 105 4 The War of the Romantics ... 148 5 Composing a Nation-Church Bond in Hungary ... 184 6 The General German Music Association ... 220 Coda ... 246 Bibliography ... 250 Index ... 269

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Book SynopsisIlluminating Leonardo opens the new series Leonardo Studies with a tribute to Professor Carlo Pedretti, the most important Leonardo scholar of our time, with a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship from the most renowned Leonardo scholars and young researchers. Though no single book could provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of Leonardo studies, after reading this collection of short essays cover-to-cover, the reader will come away knowing a great deal about the current state of the field in many areas of research. To begin the series, editors Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba present an impressive group of essays that offer fresh ideas as a departure point for future studies. Contributors include Andrea Bernardoni, Pascal Broist, Alfredo Buccaro, Francesco Paolo di Teodoro, Claire Farago, Francesca Fiorani, Fabio Frosini, Sabine Frommel, Leslie Geddes, Damiano Iacobone, Martin Kemp, Matthew Landrus, Domenico Laurenza, Pietro C. Marani, Max Marmor, Constance Moffatt, Romano Nanni, Annalisa Perissa-Torrini, Paola Salvi, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Carlo Vecce, Alessandro Vezzosi, Marino Viganò, and Joanna Woods-Marsden.Table of ContentsPrefaces List of Figures Introduction Constance Moffatt and Sara Taglialagamba Part 1 Books and Influence 1 One for the Books: A Bibliographical ‘Gleaning’ for CP Max Marmor 2 The Codex Corazza and Zaccolini’s Treatises in the Project of Cassiano dal Pozzo for the Spreading of Leonardo’s Works Alfredo Buccaro 3 A Copy of Sacrobosco’s Sphaera in Mirror Script Attributed to Matteo Zaccolini Domenico Laurenza Part 2 Dissemination of Knowledge 4 A Short Note on Artisanal Epistemology in Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting Claire Farago 5 Leonardo’s Cartonetti for Luca Pacioli’s Platonic Bodies Pietro Marani Part 3 Architecture 6 Giuliano da Sangallo and Leonardo da Vinci: Cross-Pollination or Parallels? Sabine Frommel 7 Evidence of Leonardo’s Systematic Design Process for Palaces and Canals in Romorantin Matthew Landrus 8 Vitruvius in the Trattato dell’Architettura by Luca Pacioli Francesco Di Teodoro 9 Notes on Leonardo and Vitruvius Richard Schofield Part 4 Painting and Drawing 10 Why Did Leonardo Not Finish the Adoration of the Magi? Francesca Fiorani 11 “Here’s Looking at You” The Cartoon for the So-called ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ Martin Kemp 12 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa: A Portrait without a Commissioner? Joanna Woods-Marsden 13 Leonardo’s Followers in Lombardy: Girolamo and Giovan Ambrogio Figino Annalisa Perissa Torrini Part 5 Machines 14 A Machine to Build Artilleries Andrea Bernardoni 15 Bombards and Noisy Bullets: Pietro Monte and Leonardo da Vinci’s Collaboration Pascal Brioist 16 Leonardo and the Artes Mechanicae Romano Nanni Part 6 Sculpture 17 “The Sculptor Says” Leonardo and Gian Cristoforo Romano Carlo Vecce 18 Leonardo and the Trivulzio Monument: Some Questions and Evidence (1507–1518) Marino Viganò Part 7 Science and Nature: The Body, the Body of the Earth 19 The Midpoint of the Human Body in Leonardo’s Drawings and in the Codex Huygens Paola Salvi 20 Drawing Bridges: Leonardo da Vinci on Mastering Nature Leslie Geddes 21 Leonardo da Vinci’s Hydraulic Systems and Fountains for His French Patrons Louis XII, Charles D’Amboise and Francis I: Models, Influences, and Reprises Featured in the Art of Garden Design Sara Taglialagamba 22 Pyramids, Rays and “Spiritual Powers”: Leonardo’s Research during the Last Decade of the Fifteenth Century Fabio Frosini 23 A Hydraulic System Drawing by Leonardo: Some Evaluations Damiano Iacobone 24 Leonardo’s Maps Constance Moffatt 25 Sightings, Mistakes and Discoveries al verso Alessandro Vezzosi Essential Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPlease visit our blog to read an interview with Daisy Yan Du. This volume on Chinese animation and socialism is the first in English that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in China. Although a few monographs have been published in English on Chinese animation, they are from the perspective of scholars rather than of the animators who personally worked on the films, as discussed in this volume. Featuring hidden histories and names behind the scenes, precious photos, and commentary on rarely seen animated films, this book is a timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation. This book originated from the Animators’ Roundtable Forum (April 2017 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), organized by the Association for Chinese Animation Studies.Trade Review"Apart from the informative and valuable resources, Du also shares her personal academic experience in this area… In a way, the establishment of this marginalized field can be attributed to her outstanding efforts. This book showcases her endeavours to push the field forward. As an excellent reference book containing useful textual accounts of Chinese socialist animations, it is not only essential for scholars and students interested in the fields of Chinese animation and even worldwide animation but also beneficial to animators who strive to learn from the past." -Shasha Liu, University of Toronto, The China Quarterly (2022).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List o Contributors Introduction  Chinese Animation and Socialism   Daisy Yan Du PART 1 The Splendor of Socialist Animation 1 Mochinaga Tadahito in Early Socialist China   Mochinaga Noriko, translated by Nick Stember and Yan Chen 2 Walking Our Own Path and Innovating   Duan Xiaoxuan, translated by Nick Stember 3 An Authentic Animator   Yan Dingxian, translated by Nick Stember 4 Dribs and Drabs   Lin Wenxiao, translated by Nick Stember 5 National Style and Characterization   Pu Jiaxiang, translated by Isabel Galwey 6 On the Art of Papercutting Animation   Pu Yong, translated by Isabel Galwey and Eva Chang PART 2 The Transition to Postsocialist Animated Filmmaking 7 From Layman to Animator   Yan Shanchun, translated by Isabel Galwey and Eva Chang 8 In Love with Science Fiction Animation   Dai Tielang, interviewed by Daisy Yan Du, organized by Song Han, translated by Yixing Li 9 Tradition and Innovation   Chang Guangxi, translated by Sean Macdonald 10 Yilimei and the Shanghai Animation Film Studio   Zhou Keqin, translated by Yixing Li PART 3 The Soundscape of (Post)Socialist Animation 11 Synesthesia of Music and Image   Jin Fuzai, translated by Sean Macdonald 12 My Career as an Animation Voice Actress   Ding Jianhua, interviewed by Daisy Yan Du, organized by Song Han, translated by Yixing Li PART 4 The Literary Landscape of (Post)Socialist Animation 13 My Career as a Screenwriter   Ling Shu, translated by Yixing Li PART 5 In Memory of Socialist Animators 14 Those Who Should Not Be Forgotten   Yin Xiyong, translated by Eva Chang 15 In Memory of My Father Wang Shuchen   Wang Yiqian, translated by Yixing Li PART 6 More than a Fairy Tale: Politics and Chinese Animation 16 A Tradition of Political Propaganda   Fung Yuk Song, translated by Isabel Galwey and Shaopeng Chen PART 7 Chinese Animation Goes Abroad 17 Chinese Animation in Japan, 1940s–80s   Ono Kōsei, translated by Isabel Galwey, Eva Chang, and Yan Chen   Epilogue  Socialist Legacy in the Digital Age   Daisy Yan Du Bibliography Index

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