Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture

Name: Tekstura Russian Essays on Visual Culture
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ISBN: 9780226951249

ISBN-10: 0226951243

ISBN-13: 9780226951249

Edition: 1993

Authors: Alla Efimova, Lev Manovich, Stephen Bann, Lev Manovich, Stephen Bann

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Fascinated by the myth of the Russian avant-garde and scornful of official art, the West has been selective in its engagement with Russian visual culture. Yet how do contemporary Russian scholars and critics themselves approach the history of visual culture in the former Soviet Union? Taking its title from a Russian word that can refer to the 'texture" of life, painting, or writing, this anthology assembles thirteen key essays in art history and cultural theory by Russian-language writers. The essays erase boundaries between high and low, official and dissident, avant-garde and socialist realism, art and everyday life. Everything visual is deemed worthy of analysis, whether painting or…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.89" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Foreword, Stephen Bann Object, Space, Culture


Introduction




The Study of Ideologies and Philosophy of Language




Yermolova




The Spacial Form of a Character




Painting and the Language of Theater: Notes on the Problem of Iconic Rhetoric




Movement--Immobility




Sots-Art




Public and Artist in Russia at the Turn of the Twentieth Century




Stalinism as Aesthetic Phenomenon




Transparency Painting: From Myth to Theater




Things and Words: Toward a Lyrical Museum




The Ropes of Ilya Kabakov: An Experiment in Interpretation of a Conceptual Installation




Mass Celebrations in a Totalitarian System




Paper Architecture in the Age of the French Revolution