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Picturing Russia
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- Art and Architecture
History
Literary Studies
Performing Arts
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Picturing RussiaExplorations in Visual Culture
- Edited by Valerie A. Kivelson and Joan Neuberger
"This book presents a tapestry of images of Russia covering the whole sweep of Russian history. No other volume is quite like this compendium."—Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University "I can't imagine a single Russian studies teacher in the English-speaking world who wouldn't want to have this volume."—John Randolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “It’s a rare mixed-media book that can imitate in words its own visual principle, but this stunning anthology succeeds at just that: speaking through montage and mosaic. In fifty fascinating, chronologically organized essay-vignettes, averaging no more than six pages each so accessible in a single viewing, the reader’s eye is trained to ‘see into being’ a wide array of Russian artifacts and images from the past one thousand years, raw and manipulated, private and public. These are Pictures from an Exhibition, but as social practice rather than museum art.”—Caryl Emerson, Princeton University “This brilliantly assembled set of insightful essays come together as a theoretically sophisticated, yet very accessible, study of Russian visual culture. A whole greater than the sum of its parts.”—William Mills Todd III, Harvard University "This is a unique collection of visual resources accompanied by expert and penetrating commentary by a wide variety of scholars."—Nikos Chrissidis, Southern Connecticut State University
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