New Perspectives on Russian and Soviet Artistic Culture : Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990

A cultural historian, Norman is studying the role of imperial, aristocratic, and private patronage in the emergence of a Russian school of secular art, the development of a viable art market, This Volume Represents The Latest Scholarship On The Arts Of Russia And The Soviet Union From The Reign Of Catherine The Great To The Present-day Ferment Associated With Perestroika And The Creation Of The Commonwealth Of Independent States. These Splendid Essays Not Only Provide Original Discussions Of Art, Architecture And Patronage, They Also Illuminate The Social, Political And Cultural Context Of Russian And Soviet Art, And Often Place That Artistic Culture In A Broader Comparative Perspective. Eighteenth-century Estate Design And Theatrical Illusion / Priscilla Roosevelt -- Catherine The Great And The English Garden / Anthony G. Cross -- Alexander Iii As A Patron Of Russian Art / John O. Norman -- Neo-classical Aestheticism In Pre-revolutionary Russian Architecture / William Craft Brumfield -- Vrubel And Klimt, Moscow And Vienna / James M. Curtis -- The Role Of The Moscow Architectural School In The Emergence Of The Russian Avant-garde / Elena Borisovna Ovsiannikova -- Remaking Folk Art : From Russian Revival To Proletcult / Alison L. Hilton -- From The Southern Mountains To The Northern Seas' : Painting In The Republics In The Early Soviet Period / Musya Glants -- International Modernism Of Socialist Realism : Soviet Architecture In The Eastern Republic / Milka Bliznakov -- Perestroika And The Soviet Creative Unions / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy. Edited By John O. Norman. Selected Papers From The Fourth World Congress For Soviet And East European Studies, Harrogate, 1990. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-6 Eighteenth-century Estate Design and Theatrical Illusion....Pages 7-16 Catherine the Great and the English Garden....Pages 17-24 Alexander III as a Patron of Russian Art....Pages 25-40 Neoclassical Aestheticism in Pre-revolutionary Russian Architecture....Pages 41-53 Vrubel and Klimt, Moscow and Vienna....Pages 54-61 The Role of the Moscow Architectural School in the Emergence of the Russian Avant-Garde....Pages 62-79 Remaking Folk Art: from Russian Revival to Proletcult....Pages 80-94 ‘From the Southern Mountains to the Northern Seas’: Painting in the Republics in the Early Soviet Period....Pages 95-111 International Modernism or Socialist Realism: Soviet Architecture in the Eastern Republics....Pages 112-130 Perestroika and the Soviet Creative Unions....Pages 131-151 Back Matter....Pages 153-158