Research Catalog

Title

Queer(ing) Russian art : realism, revolution, performance / edited by Brian James Baer and Yevgeniy Fiks.

Publication

• Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

• Baer, Brian James
• Fiks, Yevgeniy

Description

401 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"While the topic of queer sexuality in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union has been investigated for decades by scholars working in the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, and musicology, it has yet to be studied in any comprehensive or systematic way by those working in the visual arts. Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance is meant to address this lacuna by providing a platform for new scholarship that connects "Russian" art with queerness in a variety of ways. Situated at the intersection of Visual Studies and Queer Studies and working from different theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, the contributors expose and explore the queer imagery and sensibilities in works of visual art produced in pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and beneath the surface of conventional histories of Russian and Soviet art"--

Series Statement

Myths and taboos in Russian culture

Uniform Title

Myths and taboos in Russian culture.

Alternative Title

Queering Russian art

Subject

• Sex and art
• Homosexuality in art
• Sexual minorities in art
• Art and society > Russia (Federation)
• Art and society > Soviet Union
• Sexualité et art
• Homosexualité dans l'art
• Minorités sexuelles dans l'art
• Art et société > Russie
• Art et société > URSS
• Art and society
• Homosexuality in art
• Sex and art
• Sexual minorities in art
• Russia (Federation)
• Soviet Union

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Part One. Theoretical Framings. 1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty / Brian James Baer -- Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context. 2. "In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass": Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-century Russian Art / Olga Khoroshilova (translated by Aleksei Grinenko) -- 3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov's Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love / Nikolai Ivanov (translated by Aleksei Grinenko) -- 4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov / Brian James Baer -- 5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka's Wartime Drawings / Gleb Napreenko (translated by Aleksei Grinenko with Brian James Baer) -- 6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein's Homoerotic Drawings / Ada Ackerman -- 7. Moscow Conceptualism's Erotic Objects / Yelena Kalinsky -- 8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryano / Maria Engström (translated by Ryan Green) -- 9. A Russian Schizorevolution?: Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s / Andrei Khlobystin (translated by Aleksei Grinenko) -- 10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva's Art / Helena Goscilo -- 11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe / Andrey Shental -- 12. "My Nationality Is My Sexuality": The Post-Soviet, Diasporic, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov / Roman Osminkin (translated by Innokenty Grekov) -- Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists. 13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: Queering the Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze / Georgy Mamedov and Oksana Shatalova (translated by Aleksei Grinenko with Adrienn Hruska) -- 14. Soviet Union, July 1991 / Yevgeniy Fiks -- 15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya's Material Evidence / Victoria Smirnova-Maizel (translated by Ryan Green) -- 16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene / Seroe Fioletovoe (with translations by Innokenty Grekov) -- 17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent / Nadia Plungian (translated by Aleksei Grinenko) -- 18. A Queer (Re)Claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview with Slava Mogutin -- 19. "Queer and Russian Art?": A Conversation between Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Godovannaya -- 20. Queering Sexual Minorities: An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks

ISBN

• 9798887192512
• 9798887192529 (canceled/invalid)
• 9798887192536 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023018642

OCLC

• on1382281619
• 1382281619
• SCSB-14653857

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library