David Jackson

The Wanderers and Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russian Painting

Critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Russian nineteenth-century society, as seen through the art of the Wanderers, the nation's largest and most successful dissident school of realist painters, provides a fascinating social panorama of the late tsarist period: the land, the people, its times and history. -- .

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives in Art History
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064357
• ISBN-10: 071906435X
• Artikelnr.: 33614617

Autorenporträt

David Jackson is Professor of Russian and Scandinavian Art Histories at the School of Fine Art, History of Art, and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds

© J. Cardoso

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Academic autocracy and the artist's burden 2. The challenge
to the Academy and formation of the Wanderers 3. The lower depths: images
of the rural and urban peasantry 4. The revolutionary's tale: political
themes 5. Meritocracy: portraiture 6. History painting: sedition and
tradition 7. Landscape painting: styles and ideologies 8. The Slavic
Revival 9. Adapted allegiances Conclusion Select bibliography Index