Views of Russia & Russian Works on Paper
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Publisher: Sphinx Fine Art
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Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1907200053
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Publisher: Sphinx Fine Art
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Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1907200053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Strachan
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 309
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine Cooke
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Victoria Lomasko
Publisher: Particular Books
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781846149511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom a renowned graphic artist and activist, an incredible portrait of life in Russia today 'Victoria Lomasko's gritty, street-level view of the great Russian people masterfully intertwines quiet desperation with open defiance. Her drawings have an on-the-spot immediacy that I envy. She is one of the brave ones' - Joe Sacco, author of Palestine What does it mean to live in Russia today? What is it like to grow up in a forgotten city, to be a migrant worker or to grow old and seek solace in the Orthodox church? For the past eight years, graphic artist and activist Victoria Lomasko has been travelling around Russia and talking to people as she draws their stories. She spent time in dying villages where schoolteachers outnumber students; she stayed with sex workers in the city of Nizhny Novgorod; she went to juvenile prisons and spoke to kids who have no contact with the outside world; and she attended every major political rally in Moscow. The result is an extraordinary portrait of Russia in the Putin years -- a country full of people who have been left behind, many of whom are determined to fight for their rights and for progress against impossible odds. Empathetic, honest, funny, and often devastating, Lomasko's portraits show us a side of Russia that is hardly ever seen.
Author: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780813526041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefining Russian Graphic Arts explores the energy and innovation of Russian graphic arts during the period which began with the explosion of artistic creativity initiated by Serge Diaghilev at the end of the nineteenth century and which ended in the mid-1930s with Stalin's devastating control over the arts. This beautifully illustrated book represents the development of Russian graphic arts as a continuum during these forty years, and places Suprematism and Constructivism in the context of the other major, but lesser-known, manifestations of early twentieth-century Russian art. The book includes such diverse categories of graphic arts as lubki (popular prints), posters and book designs, journals, music sheets, and ephemera. It features not only standard types of printed media and related studies and maquettes, but also a number of watercolor and gouache costume and stage designs. About 100 works borrowed from the National Library of Russia and the Research Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia-many seen here for the first time outside of Russia-are featured in this book. Additional works have been drawn from the Zimmerli Art Museum, The New York Public Library, and from other public and private collections. Together they provide a rare opportunity to view and learn about a wide variety of artists, from the acclaimed to the lesser known. This book is a companion volume to an exhibition appearing at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
Author: Gianni Zanini
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780821353820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis evaluation assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank's lending and non-lending assistance to the Russian Federation since 1991, a 10-year period of tumultuous political, economic, and social change. This report concludes that an assistance strategy, concentrating on analytical and advisory services with limited financial support for Russia, would have been more appropriate than one involving large volumes of adjustment lending.
Author: Sphinx Fine Art
Publisher: Sphinx Fine Art
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781907200021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin C. Putna
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 8024635801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a great deal of media attention when he ironically dedicated the Czech edition of Russ–Ukraine–Russia to Miloš Zeman—the pro-Russian president of the Czech Republic. This sense of irony, combined with an extraordinary breadth of scholarly knowledge, infuses Putna’s book. Examining key points in Russian cultural and spiritual history, Russ–Ukraine–Russia is essential reading for those wishing to understand the current state of Russia and Ukraine—the so-called heir to an “alternative Russia.” Putna uses literary and artistic works to offer a rich analysis of Russia as a cultural and religious phenomenon: tracing its development from the arrival of the Greeks in prehistoric Crimea to its invasion by “little green men” in 2014; explaining the cultural importance in Russ of the Vikings as well as Pussy Riot; exploring central Russian figures from St. Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin. Unique in its postcolonial perspective, this is not merely a history of Russia or of Russian religion. This book presents Russia as a complex mesh of national, religious, and cultural (especially countercultural) traditions—with strong German, Mongol, Jewish, Catholic, Polish, and Lithuanian influences—a force responsible for creating what we identify as Eastern Europe.
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Published: 1908
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karen Dawisha
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-01-28
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780521458955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the possibilities for future alignments both among the new states of the former Soviet Union, and between the new states and their neighbours.