Russian Art And the West

by Blakesley, Rosalind P.; Reid, Susan E.

• ISBN13: 9780875803609
• ISBN10: 0875803601
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr

Summary

"This book addresses the lively artistic dialogue that took place between Russia and the West - in particular with the United States, Britain, and France - from the 1860s to the Khrushchev Thaw. Offering 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." "This illustrated volume will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers seeking to understand the fuller context of Russian artistic culture during a remarkable century of social and political change."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
A Long Engagement
Rosalind P. Blakesley
Susan E. Reid
Russian Art and the ``West''	3	(18)
Promoting a Pan-European Art
Rosalind P. Blakesley
Aleksei Bogoliubov as Artistic Mediator between East and West	21	(24)
Opening up to Europe
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier
The Peredvizhniki and the Miriskusniki Respond to the West	45	(16)
Decoration and Disconnection
Karen Kettering
The Russkii stil' and Russian Decorative Arts at Nineteenth-Century American World's Fairs	61	(25)
The Art of Pure Design
Charlotte Douglas
The Move to Abstraction in Russian and English Art and Textiles	86	(26)
Beyond Orientalism
Jane A. Sharp
Russian and Soviet Modernism on the Periphery of Empire	112	(22)
Mother of the World
John McCannon
Eurasian Imagery and Conceptions of Feminine Divinity in the Works of Nikolai Roerich	134	(22)
Soviet Schizophrenia and the American Skyscraper	156	(84)
Sona S. Hoisington
Modernity and Realism
Catherine Cooke
Susan E. Reid
Architectural Relations in the Cold War	172	(23)
Holiday on the Kolkhoz
Alison Hilton
Socialist Realism's Dialogue with Impressionism	195	(22)
Toward a New (Socialist) Realism
Susan E. Reid
The Re-engagement with Western Modernism in the Khrushchev Thaw	217	(23)
Notes on Contributors	240	(2)
Index	242