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This book
brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge methodologies in the field of Russian and East European art history.
List of contents
Introduction [Maria Taroutina and Galina Mardilovich];
PART I: Mobile Margins: Artists, Artworks, and Instituions;
Chapter One. Blood, Skin, and Paint: Karl Briullov in 1832: Allison Leigh;
Chapter Two: Iaroslavna’s Lament and its Echoes in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Art: Alison Hilton;
Chapter Three: An Exercise in Close Looking: Ilia Repin’s They Did Not Expect Him: Galina Mardilovich;
Chapter Four: "Is disagreement among artists a good thing?": The End of Salon-Type Exhibitions in Russia and Western Europe: Andrey Shabanov;
Chapter Five: Blurring Boundaries: Mikhail Vrubel’s Decorative Turn and the Rise of Russian Modernism: Maria Taroutina;
Chapter Six: Idiosyncrasy as an Alternative Modernist Narrative: Steven Mansbach
PART II: Visualizing Ideology: New systems, Cold War Aesthetics, and Post-Socialist Memory;
Chapter Seven: Art in the Age of Binary Inversion: Russian Constructivist Graphic Design and the Interwar Grid: Kristin Romberg;
Chapter Eight: The Creative Mistakes of Socialist Realism: Maria Mileeva;
Chapter Nine: A Socialist Neo-Avant-Garde? The Case of Postwar Yugoslavia: Nikolas Drosos;
Chapter Ten: The Troubled Public Sphere: Understanding the Art Scene in Socialist Hungary: Katalin Cseh-Varga;
Chapter Eleven: The Nonidentity Problem in Contemporary Belarusian Art: Tatsiana Zhurauliova;
Chapter Twelve: Marking Memories, Mediating Histories in the Work of Deimantas Narkevicius: Ksenia Nouril;
Chapter Thirteen: History in the Future Tense: On Recent Installations by Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina: Jane A. Sharp
About the author
Galina Mardilovich is Curator of Russian and European Art at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, USA.
Maria Taroutina is Assistant Professor of Art History at Yale–NUS College, Singapore.
Summary
This book brings together thirteen scholars to introduce the newest and most cutting-edge methodologies in the field of Russian and East European art history.
