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Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture

Door Valerie Ann Kivelson e.a.

Categorie
Rusland / Sovjet-Unie
Boeknummer
#421260-YE9
Titel
Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture
Auteur
Kivelson, Valerie Ann & Joan Neuberger & Associate Professor of History Joan Neuberger
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2008
ISBN10
0300119615
ISBN13
9780300119619
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original red boards, dust jacket, illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
What can Russian images and objects—a tsar's crown, a provincial watercolor album, the Soviet Pioneer Palace—tell us about the Russian people and their culture? This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. Illustrated with more than one hundred diverse and fascinating images, the book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually, understood their visual environment, and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, f... (Lees verder)ilms, folk art, and more. Each of the concise and accessible essays in the volume offers a fresh interpretation of Russian cultural history. Putting visuality itself in focus as never before, Picturing Russia adds an entirely new dimension to the study of Russian literature, history, art, and culture. The book enriches our understanding of visual documents and shows the variety of ways they serve as far more than mere illustration.
Pagina's
304
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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