Russian orientalism in a global context : hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940

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Creator: edited by Maria Taroutina, Allison Leigh
Format: Books
Language: English
Contributors: Tolz, Vera, contributor

Milam, Jennifer Dawn, 1968- contributor

Heath, Ekaterina, contributor

Nedd, Andrew, contributor

Balagurov, Nikita, author

Webley, John, contributor

Chuchvaha, Hanna, contributor

Roberts, Mary, 1965- contributor

Gasper-Hulvat, Marie, contributor

Arbuthnot, Mollie, contributor

Kaufmann, Katrin, contributor

Leigh, Allison, editor

Taroutina, Maria, editor
Publication: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023

©2023
Series: Rethinking art's histories
Physical Details: xxxiii, 277 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBNs: 1526166232, 9781526166227, 9781526166234, 9781526166241, 1526166240, 1526179717, 1526166224, 9781526179715
OCLC: on1356890675

Texts by: Vera Tolz, Maria Taroutina, Allison leigh, Ekaterina Heath, Jennifer Milam, Andrew M. Nedd, Katrin Kaufmann, John Webley, Nikita Balagurov, Hanna Chuchvaha, Marie Gasper-Hulvat, Mollie Arbuthnot and Mary Roberts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accounting for human diversity: the experience of Imperial Russia / Vera Tolz-- Introduction / Maria Taroutina -- Western or non-Western? The case of Russian art / Allison Leigh -- Perceptions of China and Russian chinoiserie under Empress Elisabeth Petrovna / Ekaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam -- "The picturesque Caucasus" of Grigorii Gagarin and Vasilii Timm / Andrew M. Nedd -- From the Alhambra to St. Petersburg: Karl Rakhau's orientalizing interiors / Katrin Kaufmann -- The Orient estranged: Vasilii Vereshchagin's Blowing from Guns in British India / John Webley -- The man in the purple coat: art and empire in Ilia Repin's Reception of Volost Elders / Nikita Balagurov -- How the Orient was Russianized: texts, images, and the popular imagination from Eruslan Lazarevich to Ruslan and Liudmila / Hanna Chuchvaha -- From Zen Buddhism to the "zero of form": exoticism, mysticism, and the East in Kazimir Malevich's early works / Pavel Kuznetsov's "distant and strange" agricultural laborers / Marie Gasper-Hulvat -- Soviet propaganda posters and Islamic art: mobilizing artistic heritage in 1920s Uzbekistan / Mollie Arbuthnot -- Afterword: Peripheral horizons: Russian Orientalism in a global context / Mary Roberts -- Index

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