The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition : With Introduction and Catalogue of the Paintings (Classic Reprint) (9781391647067)
Excerpt from The Boris Anisfeld Exhibition: With Introduction and Catalogue of the Paintings While in the popular mind this transformation had taken place overnight as it were, the moment was long preparing. Contemporary Russian art, Of which the ballet is but a single manifestation, represents, in common with all art that is inherently vital, the relentless process Of reaction. In this land Of extremes, taste, too, has its extremes, and the men Of to-day have but risen against the trammels Of a s'terile, plebeian past. You will in brief fail to grasp the significance of con temporary Slavonic art in all its colour and complexity, if you do not remember the fact that it constitutes, first andforemost, a protest against realism, a triumphant renaissance Of the ideal, or, to be more explicit, Of decorative idealism. Without presuming to be pedantic, it is well to recall the date of 1890 as the starting point Of the modern movement. Before this period Russian art, and more specifically the art Of painting, had submitted to divers contrasting influences. Hieratic and full Of rigid ritualism under the spell Of Byzantine priest, a specious imitation Of aristocratic and foreign, imported, modes under Peter, Catherine, and Elisabeth, Sla vonic painting became, toward the middle of the last century, secular and democratic. Although the Imperial Academy Of Arts was founded as far back as 1757, it was not until long after the shattered legions Of Napoleon had straggled home ward through the snow that the first salutary stir Of the native spirit began to make itself felt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Product details
- Paperback | 52 pages
- 152 x 229 x 3mm | 82g
- 05 Oct 2018
- Forgotten Books
- English
- 7 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white
- 1391647068
- 9781391647067
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