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Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernistsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748647293','ISBN:9780748647309']);In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and ‘the Russian soul’ - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield. Key Features: Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual artsAddresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernismChallenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernismsCombines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies"

Aesthetics, Russian --- 1900 - 1999 --- Great Britain --- Russia --- Great Britain. --- Russia. --- Civilization --- Foreign influences.

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One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original study, Molly Brunson traces many such paths that converged to form the tradition of nineteenth-century Russian realism, a tradition that spanned almost half a century—from the youthful projects of the Natural School and the critical realism of the age of reform to the mature masterpieces of Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the paintings of the Wanderers, Repin chief among them. By examining the classics of the tradition, Brunson explores the emergence of multiple realisms from the gaps, disruptions, and doubts that accompany the self-conscious project of representing reality. These manifestations of realism are united not by how they look or what they describe, but by their shared awareness of the fraught yet critical task of representation. By tracing the engagement of literature and painting with aesthetic debates on the sister arts, Brunson argues for a conceptualization of realism that transcends artistic media. Russian Realisms integrates the lesser-known tradition of Russian painting with the familiar masterpieces of Russia's great novelists, highlighting both the common ground in their struggles for artistic realism and their cultural autonomy and legitimacy. This erudite study will appeal to scholars interested in Russian literature and art, comparative literature, art history, and nineteenth-century realist movements.

Drawing --- Painting --- Russian literature --- Realist [modern European fine arts styles] --- drawings [visual works] --- Russian [culture or style] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- anno 1800-1899 --- Russian Federation --- Russia --- literatuur --- realisme --- Dostojewski, Fjodor --- Repin, Ilja --- Tolstoy, Lev --- 1840 - 1890 --- 19de eeuw --- Rusland --- literatuur. --- realisme. --- Tolstoy, Lev. --- Repin, Ilja. --- Dostojewski, Fjodor. --- 1840 - 1890. --- 19de eeuw. --- Rusland. --- Aesthetics, Russian --- Realism in art --- Realism in literature. --- Painting, Russian --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Lev Tolstoy, Ilya Repin, Fyofor Dostoevsky, paintings of the Wanderers, the Natural School, Russia's great novelists.