Picturing Russia's men : masculinity and modernity in nineteenth-century painting / Allison Leigh.

• Introduction-- Part 1: Autocratic Masculinity -- 1. Karl Briullov: Fathers, Brothers, Husbands, and Sons -- 2. Pavel Fedotov: Comrade-Captain-Artist -- Part 2: Homosociality and Homoeroticism -- 3. Alexander Ivanov: Desire and the Male Nude -- 4. The Artel of Artists: Envisioning the Bonds of Men -- Part 3: Modern Women and their Wounded Men -- 5. Ivan Kramskoi: Painting Women-Known and Unknown -- 6. Ilia Repin: On Masculine Vulnerability -- Conclusion.

• "The sense of estrangement felt by men during the nineteenth century has been called many things - a crisis in masculinity, the mal de siècle, even a psychological disorder known as neurasthenia - but as a phenomenon, such masculine discontent has gone largely unexplored outside of the western European and American contexts. In this ground-breaking new investigation, Allison Leigh explores how Russian painters sought to depict the new psychological struggles associated with modernity and the implications such visual manifestations of anxiety had for masculinity at the time. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including previously untranslated letters, journals, and contemporary criticism, Leigh investigates how men's lives changed as they experienced the cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. In so doing, she introduces readers to Russian artists such as Pavel Fedotov, Karl Briullov, Il'ia Repin, and Ivan Kramskoi, all of whom produced masterpieces of realist art in dialogue with paintings made in European artistic centers at the time. 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"-- 

Ämnesord

Manlighet i konsten  (sao)

Rysk målarkonst  (sao)

Modernism (konst)  (sao)

Motiv i konsten  (sao)

Masculinity in art.  (LCSH)

Painting, Russian  -- 19th century -- Themes, motives. (LCSH)

Modernism (Art)  -- Russia. (LCSH)

Art and society  -- Russia -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Konst och samhälle  -- historia (sao)

Masculinity in art  (LCSH)

Painting, Russian  (LCSH)

Modernism (Art)  (LCSH)

Ryssland  (sao)

1800-talet  (sao)

Klassifikation

700.45211 (DDC)

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