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Author Leek, Peter

Title Russian painting / Peter Leek
Published New York : Parkstone International, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Series Temporis
Temporis collection.
Contents Introduction; Icon painting; Parsunas; The Academy; Cross-currents in art; The Itinerants; The emergence of Russian Avant-garde; Religious Painting; From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s; From the 1860s to the 1890s; Portraiture; From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s; From the 1860s to the 1890s; From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period; Historical Painting; From the Eigteenth Century to the 1860s; From the 1860s to the 1890s; From the 1890s to the Revolutionary Period; Interiors and Genre Painting; Interiors in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Genre Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the 1860sGenre Painting from the 1860s to the 1890s; The Post-Revolutionary Period: the life of the People; Landscape; From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s; From the 1860s to the 1890s; From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period; Still Life; From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s; From the 1860s to the 1890s; From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period; Twentieth-century Avant-gardeand Revolutioary art; A New World of Art; Abstraction; Symbolism; Biographies; ALEXANDER NIKOLAYEVICH BENOIS; IVAN YAKOVLEVICH BILIBIN; LEON BAKST
KONSTANTIN ANDREYEVICH SOMOVVALENTIN ALEXANDROVICH SEROV; ALEXNDER YAKOVLEVICH GOLOVIN; NICHOLAS ROERICH; YEVGENY YEVGENYEVICH LANCERAY; MSTISLAV VALERIANOVICH DOBUZHINSKY; ANNA PETROVNA OSTROUMOVA-LEBEDEVA; ZINAIDA YEVGENYEVNA SEREBRIAKOVA; IGOR EMMANUILOVICH GRABAR; NIKOLAÏ NIKOLAYEVICH SAPUNOV; SERGEÏ YURYEVICH SUDEIKIN; DMITRY ISIDOROVICH MITROKHIN; GEORGY IVANOVICH NARBUT; SERGEÏ VASSILYEVICH CHEKHONIN; Bibliography; List of Works Classed by Artist; Index
Summary From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact with the wider European influence, but retained strong native intonations. It is a culture between East and West, and both influences in together. The book begins with Icons, and it is precisely Icon-painting which gave Russian artist their peculiar preoccupation with ethical questions and a certain kind of palette. It goes on the expound the duality of their art, and point out the originality of their contribution to world art. The illustrations co
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Subject Painting, Russian -- History
Portrait painting, Russian -- History
Genre painting, Russian -- History
Landscape painting, Russian -- History
ART -- History -- General.
Genre painting, Russian
Landscape painting, Russian
Painting, Russian
Portrait painting, Russian
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781780429755
1780429754
1283954125
9781283954129