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Book Folk Art of the Russian Federation from the Ethnographical Museum of the People s of the U  S  S  R

Download or read book Folk Art of the Russian Federation from the Ethnographical Museum of the People s of the U S S R written by Collet's Holdings, Ltd. Staff and published by . This book was released on 1985-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folk Art of Russian Federation

Download or read book Folk Art of Russian Federation written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archives in Russia  A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St Petersburg

Download or read book Archives in Russia A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in Moscow and St Petersburg written by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive directory and bibliographic guide to Russian archives and manuscript repositories in the capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is an essential resource for any researcher interested in Russian sources for topics in diplomatic, military, and church history; art; dance; film; literature; science; ethnolography; and geography. The first part lists general bibliographies of relevant reference literature, directories, bibliographic works, and specialized subject-related sources. In the following sections of the directory, archival listings are grouped in institutional categories. Coverage includes federal, ministerial, agency, presidential, local, university, Academy of Sciences, organizational, library, and museum holdings. Individual entries include the name of the repository (in Russian and English), basic information on location, staffing, institutional history, holdings, access, and finding aids. More comprehensive and up-to-date than the 1997 Russian Version, this edition includes Web-site information, dozens of additional repositories, several hundred more bibliographical entries, coverage of reorganization issues, four indexes, and a glossary.

Book Kandinsky and Old Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neil A. Weiss
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300056478
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Kandinsky and Old Russia written by Neil A. Weiss and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vasilii Kandinsky, whom many consider to be the father of abstract painting, was also a trained ethnographer with an abiding interest in the folklore of Old Russia. In this provocative book, Peg Weiss provides an entirely new interpretation of Kandinsky's art by examining for the first time how this commitment to his ethnic Russian heritage influenced the painter's work throughout his career.

Book Natasha s Dance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Orlando Figes
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Books
  • Release : 2014-02-11
  • ISBN : 1466862890
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Natasha s Dance written by Orlando Figes and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History on a grand scale--an enchanting masterpiece that explores the making of one of the world's most vibrant civilizations A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together. Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. Petersburg--a "window on the West"--and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself--its character, spiritual essence, and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the great works--by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall--with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing habits to beliefs about the spirit world. Figes's characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to search for the Kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian opera's first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner's wife. Like the European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the spirit of "Russianness" is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting, complex and contradictory--a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved more lasting than any Russian ruler or state.

Book Archives of Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 856 pages

Download or read book Archives of Russia written by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alaska Native Art

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  • Author : Susan W. Fair
  • Publisher : University of Alaska Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1889963798
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Alaska Native Art written by Susan W. Fair and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich artistic traditions of Alaska Natives are the subject of this landmark volume, which examines the work of the premier Alaska artists of the twentieth century. Ranging across the state from the islands of the Bering Sea to the interior forests, Alaska Native Art provides a living context for beadwork and ivory carving, basketry and skin sewing. Examples of work from Tlingit, Aleutian Islanders, Pacific Eskimo, Athabascan, Yupik, and Inupiaq artists make this volume the most comprehensive study of Alaskan art ever published. Alaska Native Art examines the concept of tradition in the modern world. Alaska Native Art is a volume to treasure, a tribute to the incredible vision of Alaska's artists and to the enduring traditions of all of Alaska's Native peoples.

Book Eastern Europe  Russia and Central Asia 2003

Download or read book Eastern Europe Russia and Central Asia 2003 written by and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethnography  Folklore  and Archaeology in the USSR

Download or read book Ethnography Folklore and Archaeology in the USSR written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Union Review

Download or read book Soviet Union Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Directory of Museums

Download or read book Directory of Museums written by Kenneth Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1975-06-18 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Current Digest of the Soviet Press

Download or read book The Current Digest of the Soviet Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th Century Russia

Download or read book The Art and Science of Making the New Man in Early 20th Century Russia written by Yvonne Howell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that morally, mentally, and physically superior 'new men' might replace the currently existing mankind has periodically seized the imagination of intellectuals, leaders, and reformers throughout history. This volume offers a multidisciplinary investigation into how the 'new man' was made in Russia and the early Soviet Union in the first third of the 20th century. The traditional narrative of the Soviet 'new man' as a creature forged by propaganda is challenged by the strikingly new and varied case studies presented here. The book focuses on the interplay between the rapidly developing experimental life sciences, such as biology, medicine, and psychology, and countless cultural products, ranging from film and fiction, dolls and museum exhibits to pedagogical projects, sculptures, and exemplary agricultural fairs. With contributions from scholars based in the United States, Canada, the UK, Germany and Russia, the picture that emerges is emphatically more complex, contradictory, and suggestive of strong parallels with other 'new man' visions in Europe and elsewhere. In contrast to previous interpretations that focused largely on the apparent disconnect between utopian 'new man' rhetoric and the harsh realities of everyday life in the Soviet Union, this volume brings to light the surprising historical trajectories of 'new man' visions, their often obscure origins, acclaimed and forgotten champions, unexpected and complicated results, and mutual interrelations. In short, the volume is a timely examination of a recurring theme in modern history, when dramatic advancements in science and technology conjoin with anxieties about the future to fuel dreams of a new and improved mankind.

Book Soviet Life

Download or read book Soviet Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folk lore

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Folk lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: