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Author Murray, Natalia

Title The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde : the Life and Times of Nikolay Punin
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (439 pages)
Series Russian History and Culture
Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands)
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on Dates and Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter One Origins of the Hero; 1. Punin's Background and Origins; 2. The Time in Tsarskoe Selo; Chapter Two Education; 1. Studies and Teachers; 2. Influences and Interests; Chapter Three Winds of Change: The First World War and Emergence of the New Creativity in Russia; 1. The Breeding-Ground--The Last Years of Imperial Russia. Foreign Influences in Russian Art (French Artists' Exhibitions); 2. Growth of Interest in Russian Art. Foundation of the Russian Museum
3. The First World War and Promise of the Revolution4. Ideas, Ideas, Ideas. The New Faces. Punin, and His Role Among Them; 5. Private Life. Marriage and Infidelity; Chapter Four The Dawn of New Hopes: The October Revolution and the Search for New Art; 1. The October Revolution; 2. The Proletarian Art Enigma; 3. The Fight Against Old Art; 4. The Saga of the Statues; 5. Art and the State; Chapter Five No Future for the Futurists? Attempts to Educate the Masses; 1. Punin and the State Hermitage Museum; 2. Art of the Commune
3. Closure of Art of the Commune and the State's First Limitations of Artistic FreedomChapter Six Gathering Clouds, But High Heart; 1. Punin's First Arrest and First Disillusionments; 2. Anna Akhmatova; 3. Ginkhuk and Tatlin. Punin's Lectures and Courses; Chapter Seven The Slow Strangulation of Free Culture; 1. The New Rules Emerging; 2. Keeping the Flame High. Russian Museum Exhibitions; 3. Events on the Home Front. Life in the Fountain House; Chapter Eight The Victory of Socialist Realism; 1. Punin's Last Articles and Exhibitions. From Avant-Garde to Socialist Realism
Chapter Nine Time of Terror1. Hard Times. Attack on Principles and Individuals; 2. The Second Arrest of Nikolay Punin; 3. Life and Work After the Arrest. Separation from Akhmatova. The Arrival of Martha Golubeva; Chapter Ten The Great Patriotic War; 1. Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Leningrad under Siege; 2. Evacuation to Samarkand; 3. Return to the North; Chapter Eleven The Broken Post-War Dreams; 1. The Post-War Cultural Scene; 2. Punin's Dismissal and Criticism; Chapter Twelve Bitter End; 1. The Final Arrest and Interrogations; 2. Life and Death in the Gulag
Summary The first biography of Nikolay Punin, this book offers a comprehensive analisys of his life in the context of Russian political, social and cultural history in the first half of the XX century
Bibliography Bibliography of Published Writings of N. PuninBibliography; Index
Notes English
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Subject Punin, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich)
SUBJECT Punin, N. N. (Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich) fast
Subject Art critics -- Russia -- Biography
Art critics -- Soviet Union -- Biography
Art, Russian -- Russia -- 20th century -- History
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia -- History
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Soviet Union -- History
ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays.
ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
Art critics
Art, Russian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Russia
Soviet Union
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012490
ISBN 9789004225596
9004225595
9786613723475
6613723479
1280882166
9781280882166