Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting by Leigh, Allison

Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women's and Gender...
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Author: Allison Leigh
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Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting by Leigh, Allison

Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting

Dhs. 313.79

Picturing Russia's Men: Masculinity and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Painting

Dhs. 313.79
Author: Allison Leigh
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women's and Gender Studies 2021

There was a discontent among Russian men in the nineteenth century that sometimes did not stem from poverty, loss, or the threat of war, but instead arose from trying to negotiate the paradoxical prescriptions for masculinity which characterized the era. Picturing Russia's Men takes a vital new approach to this topic within masculinity and art historical studies by investigating the dissatisfaction that developed from the breakdown in prevailing conceptions of manhood outside of the usual Western European and American contexts. By exploring how Russian painters depicted gender norms as they were evolving over the course of the century, each chapter shows how artworks provide unique insight into not only those qualities that were supposed to predominate, but actually did in lived practice.

Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including previously untranslated letters, journals, and contemporary criticism, the book explores the deep structures of masculinity to reveal the conflicting desires and aspirations of men in the period. In so doing, readers are introduced to Russian artists such as Karl Briullov, Pavel Fedotov, Alexander Ivanov, Ivan Kramskoi, and Ilia Repin, all of whom produced masterpieces of realist art in dialogue with paintings made in Western European artistic centers. The result is a more culturally discursive account of art-making in the nineteenth century, one that challenges some of the enduring myths of masculinity and provides a fresh interpretive history of what constitutes modernism in the history of art.

Author: Allison Leigh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 12/15/2022
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781350282742

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