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Russian Orientalism in a global context

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This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, an...
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This volume features new research on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russia’s perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russia’s colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.
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Price: £30.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Publication Date: 25 February 2025
ISBN: 9781526182647
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art, ART / Russian & Former Soviet Union, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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‘An ambitious volume that advances at an urgent moment our understanding of the imperial matrices within which Orientalist art emerged.’
Rosalind P. Blakesley, The Russian Review

‘The volume demonstrates the importance of Russian and Slavic studies to postcolonial approaches to art history.’
Kamran Karimullah, The Muslim World Book Review

Foreword: Accounting for human diversity: the experience of Imperial Russia
Vera Tolz
Introduction
Maria Taroutina
1 Western or non-Western? The case of Russian art
Allison Leigh
2 Perceptions of China and Russian chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth Petrovna
Ekaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam
3 “The picturesque Caucasus” of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii Timm
Andrew M. Nedd
4 From the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Karl Rakhau’s orientalizing interiors
Katrin Kaufmann
5 The Orient estranged: Vasilii Vereshchagin’s Blowing from Guns in British India
John Webley
6 The man in the purple coat: art and empire in Ilia Repin’s Reception of Volost Elders
Nikita Balagurov
7 How the Orient was Russianized: texts, images, and the popular imagination from Eruslan Lazarevich to Ruslan and Liudmila
Hanna Chuchvaha
8 From Zen Buddhism to the “zero of form”: exoticism, mysticism, and the East in Kazimir Malevich’s early works
Maria Taroutina
9 Pavel Kuznetsov’s “distant and strange” agricultural laborers
Marie Gasper-Hulvat
10 Soviet propaganda posters and Islamic art: mobilizing artistic heritage in 1920s Uzbekistan
Mollie Arbuthnot
Afterword: Peripheral horizons: Russian Orientalism in a global context
Mary Roberts

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