Akademibokhandeln
Michael Kunichika - "Our Native Antiquity", Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History

"Our Native Antiquity"

Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism

Av Michael Kunichika

459 kr

Skickas måndag 9/11. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Beskrivning
For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they found objects and sites long denigrated as archaeological curiosities. The book follows the exemplary careers of two objects—the so-called “Stone Women” and the kurgan, or burial mound—and the attention paid to them by Russian and Soviet archaeologists, writers, artists, and filmmakers, for whom these artifacts served as resources for modernist art and letters and as arenas for a contest between vying conceptions of Russian art, culture, and history.
Produktinformation
Utforska kategorier
Mer information

Michael Kunichika (PhD University of California, Berkeley) teaches in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.

Recensioner i media

"Russian modernism’s aesthetic orientation sought to expand 'in time,' not only 'in space.' Instead of geographically exploring the 'found' traditions of primitive cultures (as in the cases of Picasso or Gauguin), Russian modernists drilled through the layers of time to reach their own native land. In this compelling book, Michael Kunichika persistently returns to nineteenth-century history, poetry, and aesthetics, as well as to the origins of the discipline of archaeology in Russia, as he subtly reads modernist poetry, prose, visual works, and film. Kunichika’s original perspective on the subject—and how he conceptualizes it—will have major implications for our understanding of some of the most significant aesthetic and political developments in Russian modernism and beyond."

Butikslager

Ej i lager i butik.

Betyg & recensioner

0 recensioner

Inga recensioner tillgängliga.