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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Russian art"”.
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Depicting Orthodoxy: The Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered
… is a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history (inspiring, among others, the …
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Malevich’s Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
… realism, at one of the most important museums of Russian art in the Soviet Union, the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow? How are contemporaneously contested identities of the artist, the Russian peasant, and the Soviet citizen reflected and refracted in the paintings displayed at this exhibition?</p> …
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Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
Contemporary Russian art and museology is experiencing a revival of interest in the pioneering museology of the Russian artistic and political avant-garde of the early 20th century. This revival is exemplified in the work of contemporary Russian conceptual artist and self-styled ‘avant-garde …
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Definite and Indefinite Articles in Learner English: Identifying the Learning Problem and Addressing It with Processing Instruction Intervention
Articles in L2 English (“a”/“the”) are notoriously difficult to acquire, especially for learners with article-less, [-art], L1s. The purpose of this dissertation is to identify the potential causes of learner difficulty with articles and to suggest an effective teaching intervention. To identify …
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Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting
'Images of the Petrine Era in Russian History Painting' examines the changing iconography of Petr I (1672-1725) in nineteenth-century Russian painting, and its relationship with Petr's symbolic role in the cultural debate between the Westernisers and the Slavophiles over the interpretation of the …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
… power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, Georgians enjoyed special status among Soviet nations thanks to Georgia’s prestige as the place of Stalin’s birth. …
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Soviet Photo and the search for proletarian photography, 1926-1937
… as a forum for the discussion of “proletarian” art during the cultural revolution (ca. 1928–32) and in the formation of the ideas and practices that contributed to the Socialist Realist method. Chapter One explores Soviet Photo’s project to unify the USSR’s photographers and their work, which it …