Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 17401940
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Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 17401940
By (Author) Maria Taroutina
Edited by Allison Leigh
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
2nd November 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
709.47
Physical Properties
Hardback
312
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 27mm
798g
Description
This volume features new research on Russias historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule.
It interrogates how Russias perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russias colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.
Author Bio
Maria Taroutina is Associate Professor of Art History at YaleNUS College in Singapore
Allison Leigh is Associate Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
