Russian orientalism in a global context : hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940 /: hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maria Taroutina, Allison Leigh.
• Editors: Taroutina, Maria; Leigh, Allison
• Contents: Foreword: Accounting for human diversity: the experience of Imperial Russia; Vera Tolz ; Introduction; Maria Taroutina ; 1 Western or non-Western? The case of Russian art; Allison Leigh ; 2 Perceptions of China and Russian chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth Petrovna; Ekaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam ; 3 “The picturesque Caucasus” of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii Timm; Andrew M. Nedd ; 4 From the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Karl Rakhau’s orientalizing interiors; Katrin Kaufmann ; 5 The Orient estranged: Vasilii Vereshchagin’s Blowing from Guns in British India ; John Webley ; 6 The man in the purple coat: art and empire in Ilia Repin’s Reception of Volost Elders; Nikita Balagurov ; 7 How the Orient was Russianized: texts, images, and the popular imagination from Eruslan Lazarevich to Ruslan and Liudmila; Hanna Chuchvaha ; 8 From Zen Buddhism to the “zero of form”: exoticism, mysticism, and the East in Kazimir Malevich’s early works; Maria Taroutina ; 9 Pavel Kuznetsov’s “distant and strange” agricultural laborers; Marie Gasper-Hulvat ; 10 Soviet propaganda posters and Islamic art: mobilizing artistic heritage in 1920s Uzbekistan; Mollie Arbuthnot ; Afterword: Peripheral horizons: Russian Orientalism in a global context; Mary Roberts ; ; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 709.47; Art, Russian -- 18th century; Art, Russian -- 19th century; Art, Russian -- 20th century; Orientalism in art; Orientalism -- Russia -- History -- 18th century; Orientalism -- Russia -- History -- 19th century; Orientalism -- Russia -- History -- 20th century; Orientalism -- Soviet Union
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526166227; 9781526166241
• Related ISBNs: 9781526166234
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