This book focuses on the visual and material culture of St Petersburg and Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The twilight of Imperial Russia witnessed a sudden renaissance that left a profound imprint on the visual, literary and performing arts: here was a Silver Age as luminous perhaps as the Golden Age of Russian literature many decades before. Advancing in roughly chronological sequence, Moscow and St Petersburg in Russias Silver Age highlights the essential social and political developments of this turbulent era, which painting, poetry, music and dance both reflected and affected. A dazzling array of artists, writers, composers, actors, singers, dancers and designers are presented in context, including Tolstoy, Pasternak, Gorky, Akhmatova, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Nijinsky, Scriabin, Karsavina, Meyerhold, Chaliapin, Stanislavsky, Diaghilev, Roerich, Repin, Serov, Somov, Vrubel, Bakst, Kandinsky, Malevich, Mayakovsky and many more. The book carries a rich repertoire of artistic images and vintage documentary photographs, many of which have not been published before. With a clear narrative and comprehensive bibliography, this volume will appeal both to the specialist and to the general student of Russian history and culture.Table of ContentsNote to the Reader Preamble 1. A Double-Headed Eagle 2. Celestial Heavens,Sapphire Depths 3. The Shock of the New 4. The Style Moderne 5. The World ofArt 6. Flowers, Flowers to Cover the Tomb! 7. Body Art 8. Aesthetes and Barbarians9. The Year 1913 10. Apocalypse Now Epilogue

Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia's Silver Age (Paperback) /anglais

Arts & Photography

JOHN E. BOWLT

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Amazons of the Avant-Garde

Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova the work o six legendary Russian women artists is poignantly explored, offering a refreshing look at this important period of art. Celebrating the vital role that each artist played in the formation of the radical art of the Russian avant-garde, the book looks at the evolution of the Russian painting from the 1900's through the early 1920's. It brings together the brilliant masterpieces of the period, including many that have not been in the West since they were created. The work of these pioneering women artists is expressed as tremendously influential in the world of the Russian avant-garde and important in capturing the Modernist as a whole.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum

Lavishly illustrated, Moscow &amp; St. Petersburg 1900–1920 is the quintessential guide to Russia’s vibrant and influential Silver Age. In this elegantly written narrative survey, John E. Bowlt sheds new light on Russia’s Silver Age, the period of artistic renaissance that flourished as Imperial Russia’s power waned. Much of the creative energy could be attributed to the Symbolist movement, whose proponents sought to transcend the barriers of bourgeois civility and whose unconventional lifestyles led some critics to label them Decadents and Degenerates. But, as Sergei Diaghilev declared, theirs was not a moral or artistic decline, but a voyage of inner discovery and a reinvention of a national culture. Bowlt’s richly textured volume focuses not only on Russia’s best known artists from this period—Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova and poet Anna Akhmatova—but also on lesser known movements of the period—experimental theater, Nikolai Kalmakov’s innovative painting, and the free dance practiced by followers of Duncan and Dalcroze. Praise for Moscow &amp; St. Petersburg: "This book will serve as a reference resource . . . . This ambitious English-language publication aims to cover not only every art group of the time but every aspect of the Russian culture. The pictorial layout of John Bowlt’s book renders the sheer proliferation of new ideas immediately apparent. The highly charged text charts the medley of productions, groups, and individuals, all loosely associated with the symbolist movement, that make up the vast canvas. As the leading specialist in the Russian 20th-century avant-garde, Professor Bowlt is well qualified to place the silver age in context." ~ The Art Newspaper "This lushly illustrated volume captures the artistic explosion that was Russia’s Silver Age." ~ Russian Life "(An) authoritative feast of a book." ~ The Irish Times "Splendidly illustrated, beautifully designed . . . ." ~ Shepherd Express "A truly seminal work . . . ." ~ Midwest Book Review "Lavishly illustrated and elegantly written narrative survey." ~ Panache Privée "A dazzling array of color illustrations and period photos displaying the glories of Russia’s art, architecture and scientific achievements." ~ California Literary Review

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age

Vendome Press

Exhibition Catalogue for the Guggenheim Museum exhibiition in 1999-2000 entitled Amazons of the Avant-Garde featuring the prominent female artists of the Russian Avante-Garde. Included in volume Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Luibov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varva Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova. Volume includes text and color plates.

Matthew Drutt

Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova the work o six legendary Russian women artists is poignantly explored, offering a refreshing look at this important period of art. Celebrating the vital role that each artist played in the formation of the radical art of the Russian avant-garde, the book looks at the evolution of the Russian painting from the 1900's through the early 1920's. It brings together the brilliant masterpieces of the period, including many that have not been in the West since they were created. The work of these pioneering women artists is expressed as tremendously influential in the world of the Russian avant-garde and important in capturing the Modernist as a whole.

Amazons of the Avant-garde

Royal Academy of Arts

Russian Samizdat Art: Essays

Russian samizdat art: Essays

Willis Locker & Owens Pub

Rimma Gerlovin

Valery Gerlovin

Charles Doria

Of Peace and War : A Spanish Collection of Russian Art

Skira

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