Russian Painting
Icons, landscapes, and the soul of a nationBy Peter Leek
Length5h 25m
About this audiobook
From the 18th century to the 20th, this book gives a panorama of Russian painting not equalled anywhere else. Russian culture developed in contact with the wider European influence, but retained strong native intonations. It is a culture between East and West, and both influences in together. The book begins with Icons, and it is precisely Icon-painting which gave Russian artist their peculiar preoccupation with ethical questions and a certain kind of palette. It goes on the expound the duality of their art, and point out the originality of their contribution to world art. The illustrations cover all genres and styles of painting in astonishing variety. Such figures as Borovokovsky, Rokotov, Levitsky, Brullov, Fedatov, Repin, Shishkin and Levitan and many more are in these pages.
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Length5 hrs 25 mins
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Table of contents
1Introduction
29Still Life
2Introduction
30From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
3Icon painting
31From the 1860s to the 1890s
4Parsunas
32From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
5The Academy
33Twentieth-century Avant-garde and Revolutioary art
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6Cross-currents in art
34A New World of Art
7The Itinerants
35Abstraction
8The emergence of Russian Avant-garde
36Symbolism
9Religious Painting
37Biographies
10From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
38ALEXANDER NIKOLAYEVICH BENOIS
11From the 1860s to the 1890s
39IVAN YAKOVLEVICH BILIBIN
12Portraiture
40LEON BAKST
13From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
41KONSTANTIN ANDREYEVICH SOMOV
14From the 1860s to the 1890s
42VALENTIN ALEXANDROVICH SEROV
15From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
43ALEXNDER YAKOVLEVICH GOLOVIN
16Historical Painting
44NICHOLAS ROERICH
17From the Eigteenth Century to the 1860s
45YEVGENY YEVGENYEVICH LANCERAY
18From the 1860s to the 1890s
46MSTISLAV VALERIANOVICH DOBUZHINSKY
19From the 1890s to the Revolutionary Period
47ANNA PETROVNA OSTROUMOVA-LEBEDEVA
20Interiors and Genre Painting
48ZINAIDA YEVGENYEVNA SEREBRIAKOVA
21Interiors in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
49IGOR EMMANUILOVICH GRABAR
22Genre Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
50NIKOLAÏ NIKOLAYEVICH SAPUNOV
23Genre Painting from the 1860s to the 1890s
51SERGEÏ YURYEVICH SUDEIKIN
24The Post-Revolutionary Period: the life of the People
52DMITRY ISIDOROVICH MITROKHIN
25Landscape
53GEORGY IVANOVICH NARBUT
26From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
54SERGEÏ VASSILYEVICH CHEKHONIN
27From the 1860s to the 1890s
55List of Works Classed by Artist
28From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
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