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Publisher : Sphinx Fine Art
ISBN 13 : 1907200053
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Views of Russia & Russian Works on Paper written by and published by Sphinx Fine Art. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irina Shevelenko
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501776355
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Russian Archaism written by Irina Shevelenko and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Archaism considers the aesthetic quest of Russian modernism in relation to the nation-building ideas that spread in the late imperial period. Irina Shevelenko argues that the cultural milieu in Russia, where the modernist movement began as an extension of Western trends at the end of the nineteenth century, soon became captivated by nationalist indoctrination. Members of artistic groups, critics, and theorists advanced new interpretations of the goals of aesthetic experimentation that would allow them to embed the nation-building agenda within the aesthetic one. Shevelenko's book focuses on the period from the formation of the World of Art group (1898) through the Great War and encompasses visual arts, literature, music, and performance. As Shevelenko shows, it was the rejection of the Russian westernized tradition, informed by the revival of populist sensibilities across the educated class, that played a formative role in the development of Russian modernist agendas, particularly after the 1905 revolution. Russian Archaism reveals the modernist artistic enterprise as a crucial source of insight into Russia's political and cultural transformation in the early twentieth century and beyond.
Author : Molly Brunson
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757539
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Russian Realisms written by Molly Brunson and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original study, Molly Brunson traces many such paths that converged to form the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a tradition that spanned almost half a century—from the youthful projects of the Natural School and the critical realism of the age of reform to the mature masterpieces of Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the paintings of the Wanderers, Repin chief among them. By examining the classics of the tradition, Brunson explores the emergence of multiple realisms from the gaps, disruptions, and doubts that accompany the self-conscious project of representing reality. These manifestations of realism are united not by how they look or what they describe, but by their shared awareness of the fraught yet critical task of representation. By tracing the engagement of literature and painting with aesthetic debates on the sister arts, Brunson argues for a conceptualization of realism that transcends artistic media. Russian Realisms integrates the lesser-known tradition of Russian painting with the familiar masterpieces of Russia's great novelists, highlighting both the common ground in their struggles for artistic realism and their cultural autonomy and legitimacy. This erudite study will appeal to scholars interested in Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history, and nineteenth-century realist movements.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Russia's Road to Corruption written by United States. Congress. House. Speaker's Advisory Group on Russia and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461480
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Cars for Comrades written by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automobile and Soviet communism made an odd couple. The quintessential symbol of American economic might and consumerism never achieved iconic status as an engine of Communist progress, in part because it posed an awkward challenge to some basic assumptions of Soviet ideology and practice. In this rich and often witty book, Lewis H. Siegelbaum recounts the life of the Soviet automobile and in the process gives us a fresh perspective on the history and fate of the USSR itself. Based on sources ranging from official state archives to cartoons, car-enthusiast magazines, and popular films, Cars for Comrades takes us from the construction of the huge "Soviet Detroits," emblems of the utopian phase of Soviet planning, to present-day Togliatti, where the fate of Russia's last auto plant hangs in the balance. The large role played by American businessmen and engineers in the checkered history of Soviet automobile manufacture is one of the book's surprises, and the author points up the ironic parallels between the Soviet story and the decline of the American Detroit. In the interwar years, automobile clubs, car magazines, and the popularity of rally races were signs of a nascent Soviet car culture, its growth slowed by the policies of the Stalinist state and by Russia's intractable "roadlessness." In the postwar years cars appeared with greater frequency in songs, movies, novels, and in propaganda that promised to do better than car-crazy America. Ultimately, Siegelbaum shows, the automobile epitomized and exacerbated the contradictions between what Soviet communism encouraged and what it provided. To need a car was a mark of support for industrial goals; to want a car for its own sake was something else entirely. Because Soviet cars were both hard to get and chronically unreliable, and such items as gasoline and spare parts so scarce, owning and maintaining them enmeshed citizens in networks of private, semi-illegal, and ideologically heterodox practices that the state was helpless to combat. Deeply researched and engagingly told, this masterful and entertaining biography of the Soviet automobile provides a new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most iconic—and important—technologies and a novel approach to understanding the history of the Soviet Union itself.
Author : Elena Polyudova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443889741
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Soviet War Songs in the Context of Russian Culture written by Elena Polyudova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a unique study of war songs created during and after World War II, known in Russia as the “Great Patriotic War”. The most popular war songs, such as “Katyusha”, “The Sacred War”, “Dark Night”, “My Moscow”, “In the Dugout”, “Victory Day”, provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia. In the year of the 70th anniversary of victory in the war, the book studies the cultural heritage of famous war songs from a new perspective, exploring the historical background of their creation and analysing their lyrics as part of Russian cultural heritage. The book also discusses the modifications required when translating the songs from Russian to English. It concludes with a description an educational project studying war songs at Moscow schools run under the auspices of UNESCO.
Author : Stjepan Gabriel Me_trovi_
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813118277
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Road from Paradise written by Stjepan Gabriel Me_trovi_ and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1989 fall of communism in Eastern Europe occurred in a period when Western intellectuals were involved in a confusing discourse on a number of other dramatic endings: the end of modernity, the end of the century, even the possible end of sociology. Against this backdrop, the authors focus on continuities based on the "habits of the heart" of those who threw off communism in Eastern Europe, contrasting them with Western modes of thought. Their cultural explanation draws on theories of Tocqueville, Durkheim, and others to examine positive as well as negative aspects of the nations that survived communism. While focusing on the Balkans, they also make cautious prognoses for the rest of Eastern Europe.
Author : Richard Stites
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300137575
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia written by Richard Stites and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Stites explores the dramatic shift in the history of visual and performing arts that took place in the last decades of serfdom in Russia in the 1860s and revisualises the culture of that flamboyant era.
Author : Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665589124
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Tough Roads Create Tough People: Vol 3 written by Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOUGH ROADS CREATE TOUGH PEOPLE is a book written by leaders from all spheres of influence. Each one has shared great insight on how to manage the storms of life (personal or professionally). It’s a piece of work put together to inspire, motivate and challenge the thinking pattern of those who are ready to change the narrative they hold of themselves. The book is written by: - Anita Duckworth-Bradshaw - Inderjit Singh - Helen Snape - Olga Mroz - Larisa B. Miller - Jaswinder Challi - Mark D. Demers - Sir. Prof. Milan Krajnc
Author : Valentin Serov
Publisher : Parkstone International
ISBN 13 : 1780427476
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Valentin Serov written by Valentin Serov and published by Parkstone International. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the “young peredvizhniki” who joined the World of Art group, the most brilliant portraitist was Valentin Serov. Like many of his contemporaries, he delighted in painting out of doors, and some of his most appealing portraits – such as Girl with Peaches, Girl in Sunlight and In Summer - owe their naturalness to their setting or to the interplay of sunlight and shadows. Indeed, Serov regarded them as “studies” rather than portraits, giving them descriptive titles that omitted the sitter's name. The subject of Girl with Peaches – painted when Serov was only twenty-two – was in fact Mamontov's daughter Vera. The model for In Summer was Serov's wife. When only six years old, Serov began to display signs of artistic talent. At nine years old, Repin acted as his teacher and mentor, giving him lessons in his studio in Paris, then let Serov work with him in Moscow, almost like an apprentice. Eventually Repin sent him to study with Pavel Chistiakov – the teacher of many of the World of Art painters, including Nesterov and Vrubel. Chistiakov was to become a close friend. Because Serov's career spanned such a long period, his style and subject matter vary considerably, ranging from voluptuous society portraits (the later ones notable for their grand style and sumptuous dresses) to sensitive studies of children. Utterly different from any of these is the famous nude study of the dancer Ida Rubinstein, in tempera and charcoal on canvas, which he painted towards the end of his life. Although Serov's early style has much in common with the French Impressionists, he did not become acquainted with their work until after he had painted pictures such as Girl with Peaches.
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Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841488042
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Silk Road written by and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look there are the famous turquoise domes of the mosques. There is the great market, where the silks and spices are traded. And what crowds of people there are in the streets!
Author : Margaret Wettlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Russian Road written by Margaret Wettlin and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rizwana Abbasi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000439550
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Building a Road to Nuclear Disarmament written by Rizwana Abbasi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book while comprehending the contemporary global security environment, offers a new roadmap for nuclear disarmament by creating a balance between deterrence supporters and disarmament advocators. The author identifies the divide between competing approaches such as traditional security-centric aspects and humanity-centered disarmament perspectives, tackling the complex question of how to balance some states’ requirements for effective nuclear deterrence with other states’ long-term desire for a nuclear-free world. The book explores how new technologies such as cyber and Artificial Intelligence advances are available to more countries than nuclear technology, and could level the playing field for weaker nuclear weapons states. It also looks into the issues which continue to be obstacles in the way of convincing the nuclear weapon states on nuclear disarmament presented in this volume. The author argues that the gap between states' security needs and disarmament aspirations can be bridged by building a new roadmap and creating new security environment. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars, researchers, policymakers, NGOs and members of the diplomatic community, in the fields of security studies, strategic studies and nuclear policy.
Author : James R. Benn
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641292016
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Road of Bones written by James R. Benn and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Boyle is sent to the heart of the USSR to solve a double-murder at a critical turning point in the war in this latest installment of critically acclaimed James R. Benn's WWII mystery series. It’s September 1944, and the US is poised to launch Operation Frantic, a shuttle-bombing mission to be conducted by American aircraft based in Great Britain, southern Italy, and three Soviet airfields in the Ukraine. Tensions are already high between the American and Russian allies when two intelligence agents—one Soviet, one American—are found dead at Poltava, one of the Ukrainian bases. Billy is brought in to investigate, and this time he's paired, at the insistence of the Soviets, with a KGB agent who has his own political and personal agenda. In the course of an investigation that quickly spirals out of control, Billy is aided by the Night Witches, a daring regiment of young Soviet women flying at night at very low altitudes, bombing hundreds of German installations. It’s a turning point in the war, and allied efforts hang by a thread. Unless Billy and his KGB partner can solve the murders in an atmosphere of mutual distrust, Operation Frantic is doomed.
Author : Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782384324
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building written by Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning in the pre-modern world, both rivers served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In modern times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” became integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism. Furthermore, both rivers were drafted into service as the means to modernize the nation-state through hydropower and navigation. Despite being forced into submission for modern-day hydrological regimes, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers persist in the collective memory and continue to offer solace, recreation, and sustenance. Through their histories we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment, which adds another lens to our understanding of the past.
Author : Igorʹ Gennadievič Ponosov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9785914871274
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Russian Urban Art written by Igorʹ Gennadievič Ponosov and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ringo
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 0743471873
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Road to Damascus written by John Ringo and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOL-0045, a bolo on a mission that would end the civil war, finds himself caught in a moral dilemma when a young boy stands in his way and SOL begins to question whether or not bolos have souls.
