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John E. Bowlt: Of Peace and War: A Spanish Collection of Russian Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Assembled during the last twenty years, the Jose Maria Castane collection of paintings, drawings, and prints constitutes a panorama of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian art, one of the most exciting moments of modern cultural history. Unlike other representations in the West, however, the Castane collection does not focus exclusively on the avant-garde, Socialist Realism or the…

John E. Bowlt: The Russian Avant-Garde: Siberia and the East

Скачать книгу (размер 1 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 319) Аннотация: This book is devoted to the complex relationship between Russian art and the East — be it the Russian East or the Far East — with special focus on the radical artists who shaped the development of modern art a century ago. The rituals of Siberian shamans, the ancient funerary sculptures from the steppes seen as a crystallized presence of archaic and everlasting forms of worship, Chinese popular…

John E. Bowlt: A Festival of Wonders: Serghei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In May 1909, Sergei Diaghilev astonished the world of dance with his first ballet presentations in Paris that demonstrated an unprecedented combination of vitality and grace, originality, and technical sophistication. This catalogue of over three hundred artworks related to the Saisons Russes between 1909 and 1929 is the official companion to an exhibition in Monte Carlo. The legendary…

John E. Bowlt: Moscow and St: Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age: 1900-1920

Скачать книгу (размер 2 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 396) Аннотация: The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance of the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps as the Golden Age of Russian literature many decades before. Much of this new flowering was indebted to the set of ideas known as Symbolism, which fell on fertile soil in Russia. The Russian Symbolists lived and created on the edge, which often made…