Research Catalog

Title

Russian art : from neoclassicism to the avant garde, 1800-1917 : painting - sculpture - architecture / Dmitri V. Sarabianov.

Author

Sarabʹi︠a︡nov, D. V. (Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich)

Publication

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1990.

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Details

Description

320 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

As Dmitri Sarabianov tells us in this lively book, Russia first turned its face to Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century. By the start of the nineteenth century, European ideas had been assimilated into the rich substratum of Russian culture and a unique amalgam began to emerge. Indigenous subjects became the focus of Russian art. In 1870, the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, whose members were known as the Wanderers, was founded. Its dual purpose was to educate the people through traveling exhibitions and to work for social reform. At the turn of the century, the dominant mode was Symbolism. But Modernist tendencies and other currents were gaining strength. These diverse aesthetics had to be rethought in 1917, when the Revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power. Functional, applied design came to the forefront. It is here, with the close of the most brilliant and innovative period in Russia's artistic life so far, that Professor Sarabianov ends his account of the pivotal years that led to the dazzling abstract, geometrical breakthroughs of Russian art. -- From publisher's description.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• Art, Russian > 19th century
• Art, Russian > 20th century
• Art, Russian

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1800-1860. The end of Russian classicism ; Early romanticism ; Early realism ; The fate of romantic academic art ; Alexander Ivanov ; The beginnings of critical realism ; Sculpture and architecture -- 1860-1895. The realists of the 1860s ; The Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions ('The Wanderers') ; Genre painting and Ilya Repin ; History painting ; Landscape painting ; Sculpture and architecture -- 1895-1917. The beginnings of symbolism and Russian art nouveau ; From impressionism to Russian art nouveau ; The Moscow painters ; The "World of Art' group ; The 'Blue Rose' group ; The 'Knave of Diamonds, ' the 'Donkey's Tail, ' and neoprimitivism ; The avantgarde ; Sculpture and architecture.

ISBN

• 0810937506
• 9780810937505
• 0500235740
• 9780500235744

LCCN

89035254

OCLC

• ocm20131452
• 20131452
• SCSB-1887637

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library