Russian orientalism in a global context : hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940 /
This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russia's perc...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Tolz, Vera, contributor. Milam, Jennifer Dawn, 1968- contributor. Heath, Ekaterina, contributor. Nedd, Andrew, contributor. Balagurov, Nikita, author. Webley, John, contributor. Chuchvaha, Hanna, contributor. Taroutina, Maria, contributor. Roberts, Mary, contributor. Gasper-Hulvat, contributor. Arbuthnot, Mollie, contributor. Kaufmann, Katrin, contributor. Leigh, Allison, editor. Taroutina, Maria, editor. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2023]. |
| Series: | Rethinking art's histories.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on stylistic conventions and transliteration
- Foreword: Accounting for human diversity
- Introduction
- 1 Western or non-Western? The case of Russian art
- 2 Perceptions of China and Russian chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth Petrovna
- 3 "The picturesque Caucasus" of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii Timm
- 4 From the Alhambra to St. Petersburg
- 5 The Orient estranged
- 6 The man in the purple coat
- 7 How the Orient was Russianized
- 8 From Zen Buddhism to the "zero of form"
- 9 Pavel Kuznetsov's "distant and strange" agricultural laborers
- 10 Soviet propaganda posters and Islamic art
- Afterword
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- Plates