{"product_id":"russian-art-and-the-west-9780875803609","title":"Russian Art and the West","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place between Russia and the Westin particular with the United States, Britain, and Francefrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussian Art and the West\u003c\/i\u003e 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 western scholarship, while also providing new contexts for, and fresh insights into, the avant-garde of the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA richly textured account. This book would be valuable for its information and bibliographic aspects alone... but its underlying purpose is more ambitious.\u003c\/p\u003e * Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten 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, painting, architecture, and decorative arts.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA strong collection of historical scholarship. Essential reading for anyone interested in the still relatively small subfield of Anglophone Russian art history.\u003c\/p\u003e * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rosalind P. Blakesley and Susan E. Reid\u003cbr\u003e A Long Engagement: Russian Art and the \"West\"\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rosalind P. Blakesley\u003cbr\u003e Promoting a Pan-European Art: Aleksei Bogoliubov as Artistic Mediator between East and West\u003cbr\u003e 3. Elizabeth K. Valkenier\u003cbr\u003e Opening up to Europe: The Peredvizhniki and the Miriskusniki Respond to the West\u003cbr\u003e 4. Karen Kettering\u003cbr\u003e Decoration and Disconnection: The Russkii stil' and Russian Decorative Arts at Nineteenth-Century American World's Fairs\u003cbr\u003e 5. Charlotte Douglas\u003cbr\u003e The Art of Pure Design: The Move to Abstraction in Russian and English Art and Textiles\u003cbr\u003e 6. Jane Sharp\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Orientalism: Russian and Soviet Modernism on the Periphery of Empire\u003cbr\u003e 7. John McCannon\u003cbr\u003e Mother of the World: Eurasian Imagery and Conceptions of Feminine Divinity in the Works of Nikolai Roerich\u003cbr\u003e 8. Sona S. Hoisington\u003cbr\u003e Soviet Schizophrenia and the American Skyscraper\u003cbr\u003e 9. Catherine Cooke (with Susan E. Reid)\u003cbr\u003e Modernity and Realism: Architectural Relations in the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e 10. Alison Hilton\u003cbr\u003e Holiday on the Kolkhoz: Socialist Realism's Dialogue with Impressionism\u003cbr\u003e 11. Susan E. Reid\u003cbr\u003e Toward a New (Socialist) Realism: The Re-engagement with Western Modernism in the Khrushchev Thaw\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406419206487,"sku":"9780875803609","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780875803609.jpg?v=1730495733","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/russian-art-and-the-west-9780875803609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}