{"product_id":"morozov-9780300267037","title":"Morozov","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] jewel-like focus yet epic scope, reads as sumptuously as a 19th-century novel, and makes stunning use of material still emerging from Soviet archives to illuminate dark corners of history”—Jackie Wullschläger, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly, eccentric grandson of a serf who brought Monet and Matisse to Moscow, waited three years for the right “blue Gauguin”—and survived the first years of Bolshevik rule.”—Jackie Wullschläger, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e‘Best Books of 2020: Visual Arts’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Semenova was wise to widen the focus, and make this the biography of a family, and also of a collection...The descriptions of their activities read like raw material for Gogol or Dostoevsky.”– Martin Gayford,\u003ci\u003e Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A narrative skilfully told by the art historian Natalya Semenova”—Martin Bentham, \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Natalya Semenova, who told the story of Shchukin and his collection three years ago, now brings her expertise and narrative verve to the less well-known Morozov.”—Lesley Chamberlain, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“After [Semenova’s] exhaustive searches, it is difficult to imagine what further revelations might usurp her volumes on Morozov and Shchukin as the definitive studies of their patronage.”—Rosalind P. Blakesley,\u003ci\u003e Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a tribute to the commitment of a patron of the arts and a timely warning about the arbitrary power of the state to destroy and mishandle material.”—Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Drawing on a lifetime of research, Natalya Semenova has produced a riveting biography of an intensely private man who became one of the world's greatest collectors of modern art.  Her pioneering account of the life and times of Ivan Morozov restores a vital lost page in the cultural history of imperial Russia. Morozov's importance has always been unfairly eclipsed by the better-known and more flamboyant Sergei Shchukin. Natalya Semenova has been able to redress the balance, and her latest biography completes a magnificent diptych chronicling the life and times of Russia's two great collectors.”—Rosamund Bartlett\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401571901783,"sku":"9780300267037","price":13.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/morozov-9780300267037","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}