A Self-Portrait, the Pitcher, and Rembrandt the Martyr. (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Surat, Irina
• Is Part Of: Russian studies in literature. Volume 56:Number 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 50
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Osip Mandelstam; Russian poetry; ekphrastic poetry; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Periodicals; 891.7
• DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2021.1872330
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1061-1975

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article discusses three of Osip Mandelstam's poems that refer to works of art: "A hint of wing in the lifted" (sometimes called "Self-Portrait"), "Delinquent debtor to a long thirst" (or "The Pitcher), and "Like chiaroscuro's martyr Rembrandt." Irina Surat outlines the context of each poem, as well as the art works each refers to, and with reference to other scholars and memoirists places them within Mandelstam's poetic and critical opus.