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nine hundred years of masterpieces and master collections
xxxvii, 426 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Published to accompany the Guggenheim's blockbuster show in New York, "Russia!" explores the vast and complex phenomenon embodied by the word 'Russia' through the lens of the masterworks of Russian art from the 12th century to today, as well as art from the world-class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants from the 18th until the 20th centuries. It is one of the most comprehensive sources on the history of Russian art ever to be published in English.
Russia : fate and prophecy / Mikhail Shwydkoi -- Introduction / James Billington -- 12th-17th centuries : the age of the icon. The icon in the life and history of the Russian people / Gerold Vzdornov -- The imperial collections of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. The Hermitage and the Romanov family collections / Sergei Androsov -- 18th and early 19th centuries. The new era in Russian culture : the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries / Evgenia Petrova -- Russian art of the first half of the 19th century / Mikhail Allenov -- Late 19th century. Russian art of the second half of the 19th century : the wanderers, Pavel Tretyakov, and his gallery / Lidia Iovleva -- From realism to symbolism, 1860-1900 / Robert Rosenblum -- Early 20th century : Shchukin and Morozov collections and the avant-garde. Moscow's two great collectors : Shchukin and Morozov / Albert Kostenevich -- The many faces of the Russian avant-garde : late 1900s to early 1920s / Dmitry Sarabianov -- Socialist realism through the thaw. Educating the masses : socialist realist art / Boris Groys -- 1957 to the present. Official exchanges/unofficial representations : the politics of contemporary art in the Soviet Union and the United States, 1956-1977 / Valerie L. Hillings -- Official and unofficial art in the USSR : the dialectics of the vertical and the horizontal / Ekaterina Degot -- Between past and future / Alexander Borovsky.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held Sept. 16, 2005-Jan. 11, 2006 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph BVAS
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422) and index.
New York : Guggenheim Museum : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2005