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Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history. -- .

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The book is well written. It reads easily, and this in itself might help to popularize the Wanderers. It can certainly be recommended as a readable popular survey or introduction. -- .

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Introduction
1. Academic autocracy and the artist’s burden
2. The challenge to the Academy and formation of the Wanderers
3. The lower depths: images of the rural and urban peasantry
4. The revolutionary’s tale: political themes
5. Meritocracy: portraiture
6. History painting: sedition and tradition
7. Landscape painting: styles and ideologies
8. The Slavic Revival
9. Adapted allegiances
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

The Wanderers and Critical Realism in Nineteenth

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719064357, 978-0719064357
      ISBN10: 071906435X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history. -- .

      Trade Review
      The book is well written. It reads easily, and this in itself might help to popularize the Wanderers. It can certainly be recommended as a readable popular survey or introduction. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Academic autocracy and the artist’s burden
      2. The challenge to the Academy and formation of the Wanderers
      3. The lower depths: images of the rural and urban peasantry
      4. The revolutionary’s tale: political themes
      5. Meritocracy: portraiture
      6. History painting: sedition and tradition
      7. Landscape painting: styles and ideologies
      8. The Slavic Revival
      9. Adapted allegiances
      Conclusion
      Select bibliography
      Index

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