Main entry:

Sarabʹi︠a︡nov, D. V. (Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich)

Title & Author:

Russian art : from neoclassicism to the avant garde, 1800-1917 : painting - sculpture - architecture / Dmitri V. Sarabianov.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams, 1990.

Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-308) and index.
1800-1860. The end of Russian classicism ; Early romanticism ; Early realism ; The fate of romantic academic art ; Alexander Ivanov ; The beginnings of critical realism ; Sculpture and architecture -- 1860-1895. The realists of the 1860s ; The Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions ('The Wanderers') ; Genre painting and Ilya Repin ; History painting ; Landscape painting ; Sculpture and architecture -- 1895-1917. The beginnings of symbolism and Russian art nouveau ; From impressionism to Russian art nouveau ; The Moscow painters ; The "World of Art' group ; The 'Blue Rose' group ; The 'Knave of Diamonds, ' the 'Donkey's Tail, ' and neoprimitivism ; The avantgarde ; Sculpture and architecture.

Summary:

As Dmitri Sarabianov tells us in this lively book, Russia first turned its face to Europe at the beginning of the eighteenth century. By the start of the nineteenth century, European ideas had been assimilated into the rich substratum of Russian culture and a unique amalgam began to emerge. Indigenous subjects became the focus of Russian art. In 1870, the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, whose members were known as the Wanderers, was founded. Its dual purpose was to educate the people through traveling exhibitions and to work for social reform. At the turn of the century, the dominant mode was Symbolism. But Modernist tendencies and other currents were gaining strength. These diverse aesthetics had to be rethought in 1917, when the Revolution brought the Bolsheviks to power. Functional, applied design came to the forefront. It is here, with the close of the most brilliant and innovative period in Russia's artistic life so far, that Professor Sarabianov ends his account of the pivotal years that led to the dazzling abstract, geometrical breakthroughs of Russian art. -- From publisher's description.

ISBN:

0810937506
9780810937505
0500235740
9780500235744

Subject:

Art, Russian 19th century.
Art, Russian 20th century.
Art, Russian.
Art russe.
Art Russie 19e siècle.
Art Russie 20e siècle.
Art russe 19e siècle.
Art russe 20e siècle.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 54712
Call No.: ID:90-B3293
Status: Available