Russian Painting
Icons, landscapes, and the soul of a nationBy Peter Leek
Length5h 31m
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 31 mins
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Publish dateSep 15, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Icon painting
4Parsunas
5The Academy
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6Cross-currents in art
7The Itinerants
8The emergence of Russian Avant-garde
9Religious Painting
10From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
11From the 1860s to the 1890s
12Portraiture
13From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
14From the 1860s to the 1890s
15From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
16Historical Painting
17From the Eigteenth Century to the 1860s
18From the 1860s to the 1890s
19From the 1890s to the Revolutionary Period
20Interiors and Genre Painting
21Interiors in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
22Genre Painting from the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
23Genre Painting from the 1860s to the 1890s
24The Post-Revolutionary Period: the life of the People
25Landscape
26From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
27From the 1860s to the 1890s
28From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
29Still Life
30From the Eighteenth Century to the 1860s
31From the 1860s to the 1890s
32From the 1890s to the Post-Revolutionary Period
33Twentieth-century Avant-garde and Revolutioary art
34A New World of Art
35Abstraction
36Symbolism
37Biographies
38ALEXANDER NIKOLAYEVICH BENOIS
39IVAN YAKOVLEVICH BILIBIN
40LEON BAKST
41KONSTANTIN ANDREYEVICH SOMOV
42VALENTIN ALEXANDROVICH SEROV
43ALEXNDER YAKOVLEVICH GOLOVIN
44NICHOLAS ROERICH
45YEVGENY YEVGENYEVICH LANCERAY
46MSTISLAV VALERIANOVICH DOBUZHINSKY
47ANNA PETROVNA OSTROUMOVA-LEBEDEVA
48ZINAIDA YEVGENYEVNA SEREBRIAKOVA
49IGOR EMMANUILOVICH GRABAR
50NIKOLAÏ NIKOLAYEVICH SAPUNOV
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