The unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde : the life and times of Nikolay Punin / / by Natalia Murray.
This book is the first biography of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953). One of the most prominent art-critics of the avant-garde, in 1919 Punin was the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, he was lecturing at the Academy of Arts and at the State University in Petrograd (and subsequently Leningrad)...
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| Superior document: | Russian history and culture, v. 9 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (439 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Chapter One Origins of the Hero
- Chapter Two Education
- Chapter Three Winds of Change: The First World War and Emergence of the New Creativity in Russia
- Chapter Four The Dawn of New Hopes: The October Revolution and the Search for New Art
- Chapter Five No Future for the Futurists? Attempts to Educate the Masses
- Chapter Six Gathering Clouds, But High Heart
- Chapter Seven The Slow Strangulation of Free Culture
- Chapter Eight The Victory of Socialist Realism
- Chapter Nine Time of Terror
- Chapter Ten The Great Patriotic War
- Chapter Eleven The Broken Post-War Dreams
- Chapter Twelve Bitter End
- Bibliography of Published Writings of N. Punin
- Bibliography
- Index.