When art makes news : writing culture and identity in imperial Russia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dianina, Katia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: DeKalb : NIU Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The predicament of Russian culture
  • National culture: a conceptual reading
  • What's in a term
  • An interdisciplinary paradigm for the study of Russian culture
  • The evolution of cultural discourse
  • A crisis of culture
  • Launching the discourse: international exhibitions and Russian texts
  • "The great exhibition and the little one"
  • Writing the Crystal Palace: Russian readings and misreadings
  • The discovery of the Russian style, circa 1851
  • The Russian School of Art at the International Exhibition, 1862
  • Art and society: gathering culture, writing identity
  • Defining Russia culturally: the national question and its representations
  • The museum age in Russia
  • The newspaper boom of the 1860s
  • The feuilleton, or Russian culture "lite"
  • Russian art as controversy
  • Discursive practices
  • Institutions and debates: negotiating art and power
  • The millennium monument, 1862
  • The imperial Hermitage
  • Narratives of the Academy of Fine Arts
  • The Russian art world in the news: painting and controversy
  • "Realism and nationality": the rise of a Russian realist aesthetics
  • Art in motion: the itinerant exhibitions and the Tretiakov Gallery of Art
  • Art for the public: the Russian Museum of Alexander III
  • Built out of words: history and stylization
  • Culture in the Russian style
  • Moscow, the seat of national culture
  • "A festival of public activity": the birth of the Historical Museum, 1872-1883
  • National revival writ large: from a cult of antiquity to a souvenir identity
  • The Russian cult of antiquity
  • Reinventing tradition in Abramtsevo, Talashkino, and beyond
  • Tales of a national revival: the Snow Maiden and Lefty
  • The triumph of Berendeevka: the making of Russian souvenir identity, Paris 1900
  • Epilogue. The world of art in the news: culture wars at the turn of the century.