Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts
Part of Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
- Editors:
- Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford
- Stephen Lovell, St John's College, Oxford
- Date Published: March 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521661911
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In the Russian modernist era, literature threw itself open to influences from other art forms, most particularly the visual arts. Collaborations between writers, artists, designers, and theatre and cinema directors took place more intensively and productively than ever before or since. Equally striking was the incursion of spatial and visual motifs and structures into verbal texts. Verbal and visual principles of creation joined forces in an attempt to transform and surpass life through art. Yet willed transcendence of the boundaries between art forms gave rise to confrontation and creative tension as well as to harmonious co-operation. This collection of essays by leading British, American and Russian scholars, first published in 2000, draws on a rich variety of material - from Dostoevskii to Siniavskii, from writers' doodles to cabarets, from well-known modernists such as Akhmatova, Malevich, Platonov and Olesha to less well-known figures - to demonstrate the creative power and dynamism of Russian culture 'on the boundaries'.
Read more- First sustained study of the relationship between literary and visual arts in the Russian modernist period
- Provides insights into the work of well-known Russian modernists including Akhmatova and Platonov in broad context
- Strong contributions from leading scholars from UK, USA and Russia
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- Date Published: March 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521661911
- length: 334 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.58kg
- contains: 33 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: boundaries of the spectacular Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell
Part I. The Arts Reflected in Literature:
1. Defining the face: observations on Dostoevskii's creative processes Konstantin Barsht
2. Painting and autobiography: Anna Prismatova's Pesok and Anna Akhmatova's Epicheskie motivy
3. Picture windows: the art of Andrei Siniavskii Jane Grayson
4. Mikhail Zoshchenko's shadow operas Alexander Zholkovsky
Part II. Adaptations, Collaborations, Disputes and Rapprochements: Russian Literature, Visual Arts, and Performance:
5. 'Theatricality' as a concept in the Russian modernist movement
6. Design on drama: Chekhov and Simov Cynthia Marsh
Khlebnikov eye Robin Milner-Gulland
8. Cinematic literature and literary cinema: Olesha, Room and the search for a new art form Milena Michalski
9. Meaningful voids: facelessness in Platov and Malevich Andrew Wachtel
10. Painted mirrors: landscape and self-representation in women's verbal and visual art Pamela Chester
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