Picturing Russia
Explorations in Visual Culture
Kivelson, Valerie A. (EDT)
Neuberger, Joan (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
What can Russian images and objectsa tsars crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palacetell us about the Russian people and their culture?
This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more.
Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.
BOOK REVIEWS
“This brilliantly assembled set of insightful essays come together as a theoretically sophisticated, yet very accessible, study of Russian visual culture. A whole greater than the sum of its parts.”—William Mills Todd III, Harvard University
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0300119615
ISBN(13-digit): 9780300119619
Dewey Decimal: 709.4709
Library of Congress: 2007039315
Book Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 284
Paper Weight (lb): 2.25 lb
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