The Russian avant-garde : Siberia and the East : [Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 27 September 2013-19 January 2014] / edited by John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler, Evgenia Petrova ; [art director, Marcello Francone ; editorial coordination, Vincenza Russo ; translations: Paul Metcalfe (from Italian), Simon Geoghegan (from Russian)].
Includes bibliographical references. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, Sept. 27, 2013-Jan. 19, 2014.
Contents:
"The Fantastic Tavern" and other caucasian stories / Maria Tsantsanoglou -- Nicoletta Misler, Evgenia Petrova -- The east and Russian culture / Aldo Ferrari -- Endogenous and exogenous: appropriations and explosions in Russia's visual culture / Silvia Burini -- A profound and endless space / John E. Bowlt -- Bringing Asia to the halls of the winter palace / Ol'ga Sosnina -- "A miraculous harmony of colours." Russian artists and the east / Elena Terkel' -- Russian artists discover the boundless spaces of Siberia and the Orient / Evgenia Petrova -- Russian expeditions to Siberia / Valentina Gorbacheva -- China, Tibet, Mongolia, Russia: a white Tara for the Crown Prince of all Russia. Buddhism and shamanism in ceremonial objects / Marina Fedorova -- Buddhism, shamanism and the peoples of Russia: syncretism in ceremonial practices / Svetlana Romanova -- The smaller shamanic idols of the peoples of Siberia / Tat'iana Sem -- A passion for the east: collections of Orientalia in St. Petersburg in the early twentieth century / Adele Di Ruocco -- Two views--one war. Lubki from the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War / Elena Barkhatova -- Theosophy, Hinduism and shamanism in the Russian silver age / Kirill Gavrilin -- Idols of stone, idols of the forest, idols of the moon: prehistoric and primitive sources of the Russian Avant-garde / Nicoletta Misler -- Mikhail Larionov, Natal'ia Goncharova: turning to the east / Evgenia Iliukhina -- Legends of the new east: the artists of Central Asia / Ekaterina Ermakova -- "The Fantastic Tavern" and other caucasian stories / Maria Tsantsanoglou -- Works.
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