Lot's Wife and the Venus of Milo Conflicting Attitudes to the Cultural Heritage in Modern Russia

Name: Lot's Wife and the Venus of Milo Conflicting Attitudes to the Cultural Heritage in Modern Russia
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ISBN: 9780521157902

ISBN-10: 0521157900

ISBN-13: 9780521157902

Edition: 2010

Authors: Boris Thomson

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Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Boris Thomson is retired from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Toronto.



Introduction






The problem of art


Marxism


The Symbolists


The Futurists


Correspondence from Two Corners



The necessity of art: the last years of Aleksandr Blok



The redundancy of art: Soviet and Marxist views of art in the 1920s






The secret of art: two Soviet myths


Khlebnikov's Night Search


Bagritsky's February



The difference of art: some Soviet writers of the 1920s and 1930s


Zamyatin


Pil'nyak


Red Cavalry


Yuriy Olesha


Andrey Platonov



The fact of art: Leonid Leonov



Some properties of art


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index