Russian Art And American

Author : Robert Chadwell Williams
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940 written by Robert Chadwell Williams and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the dispersal of Russian art in the United States, beginning with the works exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904.

Author : Robert C. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674863033
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940 written by Robert C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Gibbs Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.5Y/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Art and American written by William Gibbs Peckham and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vladimir Alexandrov
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802193765
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Russian written by Vladimir Alexandrov and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “altogether astonishing” true story of a black American finding fame and fortune in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the 20th century (Booklist, starred review). The Black Russian tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, a man born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. But when his father was murdered, Frederick left the South to work as a waiter in Chicago and Brooklyn. Seeking greater freedom, he traveled to London, then crisscrossed Europe, and—in a highly unusual choice for a black American at the time—went to Russia. Because he found no color line there, Frederick settled in Moscow, becoming a rich and famous owner of variety theaters and restaurants. When the Bolshevik Revolution ruined him, he barely escaped to Constantinople, where he made another fortune by opening celebrated nightclubs as the “Sultan of Jazz.” Though Frederick reached extraordinary heights, the long arm of American racism, the xenophobia of the new Turkish Republic, and Frederick’s own extravagance brought his life to a sad close, landing him in debtor’s prison, where he died a forgotten man in 1928. “In his assiduously researched, prodigiously descriptive, fluently analytical” narrative (Booklist, starred review), Alexandrov delivers “a tale . . . so colourful and improbable that it reads more like a novel than a work of historical biography.” (The Literary Review). “[An] extraordinary story . . . [interpreted] with great sensitivity.” —The New York Review of Books

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708487
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ransom of Russian Art written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McPhee's The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union's collapse. In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial artists in at least a dozen geographically scattered cities. By 1977, he had a thousand works of art. His ultimate window of interest involved the years from 1956 to 1986, and through his established contacts he eventually acquired another eight thousand works—by far the largest collection of its kind. McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched.

Author : Sergei Kan
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189290
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country written by Sergei Kan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans, so-called Creoles, who worked in a local fertilizer factory. Using a Kodak camera, Soboleff, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, documented the life of this multiethnic parish at work and at play until 1920. Despite their significance, few of Soboleff’s photographs have been published since their discovery in 1950. Anthropologist Sergei Kan rectifies that oversight in A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, which brings together more than 100 of Soboleff’s striking black-and-white images. Combining Soboleff’s photographs with ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Kan brings to life the communities of Killisnoo, where Soboleff grew up, and Angoon, the Tlingit village. The photographs gathered here depict Russian Creoles, Euro-Americans, the operation of the Killisnoo factory, and the daily life of its workers. But Soboleff’s work is especially valuable as a record of Tlingit life. As a member of this multiethnic community, he was able to take unusually personal photographs of people and daily life. Soboleff’s photographs offer candid and intimate glimpses into Tlingit people’s then-new economic pursuits such as commercial fishing, selling berries, and making “Indian curios” to sell to tourists. Other images show white, Creole, and Native factory workers rubbing shoulders while keeping a certain distance during leisure time. Kan offers readers, historians, and photography lovers a beautiful visual resource on Tlingit and Russian American life that shows how the two cultures intertwined in southeastern Alaska at the turn of the past century.

Author : Roann Barris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000927660
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming and Redefining American Exhibitions of Russian Art written by Roann Barris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the history of American exhibitions of Russian art in the twentieth century in the context of the Cold War. Because this history reflects changes in museological theory and the role of governments in facilitating or preventing intercultural cooperation, it uncovers a story that is far more complex than a chronological listing of exhibition names and art works. Roann Barris considers questions of stylistic appropriations and influences and the role of museum exhibitions in promoting international and artistic exchanges. Barris reveals that Soviet and American exchanges in the world of art were extensive and persistent despite political disagreements before, during, and after the Cold War. It also reveals that these early exhibitions communicated contradictory and historically invalid pictures of the Russian or Soviet avant-garde. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, and Russian studies.

Author : Tamara Talbot Rice
Publisher : London : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Russian Art written by Tamara Talbot Rice and published by London : Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 1963 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in tenth-century Kiev, through the post revolutionary period, up to the formulation of modern art.

Author : John E. Bowlt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500293058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Art of the Avant-garde written by John E. Bowlt and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major resource, collecting essays, articles, manifestos, and works of art by Russian artists and critics in the early twentieth century, available again at the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution

Author : Sandra Frimmel
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648893554
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art Judgements: Art on Trial in Russia after Perestroika written by Sandra Frimmel and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusually large number of court cases against art, artists, and curators have taken place in Russia since the turn of the century. In reference to two of the most prominent, against the organizers of the exhibitions 'Caution, Religion!' and 'Forbidden Art 2006', the author examines the ways in which the meaning of art and its socio-political effects are argued in court: How do these trials attempt to establish a normative concept of art, and furthermore a binding juridical understanding of art? How is the discussion of what is permissible in art being framed in Russia today? Research into the post-Soviet art trials has been mainly journal-driven until today. Only the fairly recent trials of the Pussy Riot activists and Pyotr Pavlensky provoked lengthy publications, but these are mostly concerned with explicitly political and activist art rather than its particular discourse when on trial. This book, however, takes a scholarly approach towards (Russian) art on trial. It puts the cases in a national-historical context, which is compared from international perspectives, and particularly focuses on the way in which these proceedings have intensified juridical power over artistic freedom (of speech) in the production of art in Russia. This book will appeal to academics and students in the areas of art history, cultural science, sociology, and Slavic studies, as well as jurists, curators and museum specialists, researchers and employees in cultural institutions.