This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russias historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.
This volume features new research on Russias historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russias perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russias colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.
Recenzijas
An ambitious volume that advances at an urgent moment our understanding of the imperial matrices within which Orientalist art emerged. Rosalind P. Blakesley, The Russian Review
The volume demonstrates the importance of Russian and Slavic studies to postcolonial approaches to art history. Kamran Karimullah, The Muslim World Book Review -- .
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 Rakhaus orientalizing interiors
Katrin Kaufmann
5 The Orient estranged: Vasilii Vereshchagins Blowing from Guns in British
India
John Webley
6 The man in the purple coat: art and empire in Ilia Repins 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 Malevichs early works
Maria Taroutina
9 Pavel Kuznetsovs 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 -- .
Maria Taroutina is Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies at Brown University
Allison Leigh is Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette -- .
