When art makes news : writing culture and identity in imperial Russia /
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DeKalb :
NIU Press,
[2013]
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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.