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Title

The unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde : the life and times of Nikolay Punin / by Natalia Murray.

Author

Murray, Natalia

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012, ©2012.

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Description

xxii, 325 pages, 90 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

The first biography of Nikolay Punin, this book offers a comprehensive analisys of his life in the context of Russian political, social and cultural history in the first half of the XX century.

Series Statement

Russian history and culture ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) v. 9.

Subject

• ART / Individual Artists / Artists' Books
• ART / Individual Artists / Essays
• ART / Individual Artists / Monographs
• Art critics > Russia > Biography
• Art critics > Soviet Union > Biography
• Art, Russian > Russia > 20th century > History
• Art, Russian > Soviet Union > History
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Russia > History
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Soviet Union > History
• Punin, N. N

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of the published writings of N. Punin": pages [297]-306.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-312) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on Dates and Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter One Origins of the Hero; 1. Punin's Background and Origins; 2. The Time in Tsarskoe Selo; Chapter Two Education; 1. Studies and Teachers; 2. Influences and Interests; Chapter Three Winds of Change: The First World War and Emergence of the New Creativity in Russia; 1. The Breeding-Ground--The Last Years of Imperial Russia. Foreign Influences in Russian Art (French Artists' Exhibitions); 2. Growth of Interest in Russian Art. Foundation of the Russian Museum
• 3. The First World War and Promise of the Revolution4. Ideas, Ideas, Ideas. The New Faces. Punin, and His Role Among Them; 5. Private Life. Marriage and Infidelity; Chapter Four The Dawn of New Hopes: The October Revolution and the Search for New Art; 1. The October Revolution; 2. The Proletarian Art Enigma; 3. The Fight Against Old Art; 4. The Saga of the Statues; 5. Art and the State; Chapter Five No Future for the Futurists? Attempts to Educate the Masses; 1. Punin and the State Hermitage Museum; 2. Art of the Commune
• 3. Closure of Art of the Commune and the State's First Limitations of Artistic FreedomChapter Six Gathering Clouds, But High Heart; 1. Punin's First Arrest and First Disillusionments; 2. Anna Akhmatova; 3. Ginkhuk and Tatlin. Punin's Lectures and Courses; Chapter Seven The Slow Strangulation of Free Culture; 1. The New Rules Emerging; 2. Keeping the Flame High. Russian Museum Exhibitions; 3. Events on the Home Front. Life in the Fountain House; Chapter Eight The Victory of Socialist Realism; 1. Punin's Last Articles and Exhibitions. From Avant-Garde to Socialist Realism
• Chapter Nine Time of Terror1. Hard Times. Attack on Principles and Individuals; 2. The Second Arrest of Nikolay Punin; 3. Life and Work After the Arrest. Separation from Akhmatova. The Arrival of Martha Golubeva; Chapter Ten The Great Patriotic War; 1. Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Leningrad under Siege; 2. Evacuation to Samarkand; 3. Return to the North; Chapter Eleven The Broken Post-War Dreams; 1. The Post-War Cultural Scene; 2. Punin's Dismissal and Criticism; Chapter Twelve Bitter End; 1. The Final Arrest and Interrogations; 2. Life and Death in the Gulag.

ISBN

• 9789004204751 (hardback : alkaline paper)
• 9789004225596 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012012490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library