| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Peter the Great and the problem of periodization / James Cracraft -- The throne of Monomakh : Ivan the Terrible and the architectonics of destiny / Michael S. Flier -- Architecture and dynasty : Boris Godunov's uses of architecture, 1584-1606 / Daniel Rowland -- Catherine the Great's field of dreams : architecture and landscape in the Russian Enlightenment / Dimitri Shvidkovsky -- Russian estate architecture and noble identity / Priscilla Roosevelt -- The picturesque and the holy : visions of touristic space in Russia, 1820-1850 / Christopher Ely -- Constructing the Russian other : Viollet-le-Duc and the politics of an Asiatic past / Lauren M. O'Connell -- The "Russian style" in church architecture as imperial symbol after 1881 / Richard Wortman -- Civilization in the city : architecture, urbanism, and the colonization of Tashkent / Robert D. Crews -- Stalinist modern : constructivism and the Soviet company town / Greg Castillo -- The greening of utopia : nature, social vision, and landscape art in Stalinist Russia / Mark Bassin -- The rise and fall of Stalinist architecture / Andrew Day -- Conflict over designing a monument to Stalin's victims : public art and political ideology in Russia, 1987-1996 / Kathleen E. Smith -- Architecture, urban space, and post-Soviet Russian identity / Blair A. Ruble |
| Summary |
From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl-across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used architecture to project unity, identity, and power. Church architecture has inspired national cohesion and justified political control while representing the claims of religion in brick, wood, and stone. The architectural vocabulary of the Soviet state celebrated industrialization, mechanization, and communal life. Buildings and landscapes have expressed utopian urges as well as lofty spiritual goals. Country houses and memorials have encoded their own messages. In Architectures of Russian Identity, James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland gather a group of authors from a wide variety of backgrounds-including history and architectural history, linguistics, literary studies, geography, and political science-to survey the political and symbolic meanings of many different kinds of structures. Fourteen heavily illustrated chapters demonstrate the remarkable fertility of the theme of architecture, broadly defined, for a range of fields dealing with Russia and its surrounding territories. The authors engage key terms in contemporary historiography-identity, nationality, visual culture-and assess the applications of each in Russian contexts |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-244) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Architecture, Modern.
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Architecture -- Russia (Federation)
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
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Architecture
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Architecture, Modern
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Bouwkunst.
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Architektur
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Geschichte
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Kunst
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Nationalbewusstsein
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21.62 history of architecture.
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Architecture -- Russia.
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Russia (Federation)
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Russland
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Sowjetunion
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rowland, Daniel B. (Daniel Bruce), 1941-
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Cracraft, James
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| ISBN |
9781501723582 |
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1501723588 |
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