Picturing Russia : explorations in visual culture

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Picturing Russia : explorations in visual culture / ed. by Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kivelson, Valerie A. (Editor), Neuberger, Joan (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	New Haven, Conn. : Yale Univ. Press, 2008
Subjects:	Art, Russian Art and history Visual communication Russia - in art
Contents/pieces:	21 records

1. An icon of female authority : the St. Catherines image of 1721

2. Circles on a square : the heart of St. Petersburg culture in early nineteenth century

3. The Russian round table : Aleksei Zubov's "Depiction of the Marriage of His Royal Highness, Peter the First, Autocrat of All the Russias"

4. Alexander Ivanov's "Appearance of Christ to the People"

5. Folk art and social ritual

6. Church of the intercession on the Moat / St. Basil's cathedral

7. Seeing into being : an introduction

8. "Blessed Is the Host of the Heavenly Tsar" : an icon from the Dormition cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin

9. Dirty old books

10. The cap of Monomakh

11. Conspicious consumption at the court of Catherine the Great : Count Zakhar Chernyshev's snuffbox

12. Sixteenth-century Muscovite cavalrymen

13. Mapping serfdom : peasant dwellings on seventeenth-century litigation maps

14. Personal and imperial : Fyodor Vasiliev's "In the Crimean Mountains"

15. The crosier of St. Stefan of Perm

16. Visualizing and illustrating early Rus housing

17. "Lubki" of emancipation

18. Neither nobles nor peasants : plain painting and the emergence of the merchant estate

19. Shop signs, monuments, souvenirs : view of the empire in everyday life

20. Moving pictures : the optics of serfdom on the Russian estate

21. "The Storming of Kars"