Soviet Women And Their Art

Author : Rena Lavery,Ivan Lindsay
Publisher : Unicorn
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1911604767

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Soviet Women and Their Art by Rena Lavery,Ivan Lindsay Pdf

This newpublication provides a cross-disciplinary examination of early 20thcentury feminism and gender politics in the Soviet Union in relation to therise and development of prominent female artists and sculptors. The book coversthe period from the end of WWI and pre-Revolutionary Russia to Gorbachev's perestroikaand the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It consists of a collection of essaysby leading specialists in the field, academics and independent scholars,covering major events in Soviet history, art and culture and exploring the roleof women in society, the representation of women in art, and discussing theoeuvre and artistic practices of Soviet female artists. The bookinitially examines the emergence of prominent female artists, leaders of theAvant-garde movement in the 1910s-1920s. Following this, a chapter delves intoStalin's era which saw only a handful of outstanding female artists such as V.Mukhina rising to the top of the cultural artistic elite. Many of the femaleartists and sculptors were driven into obscurity and mainly worked as stagedesigners or book illustrators. Then the book focuses on the arrival ofKhrushchev's Thaw which temporarily and partially relieved the oppressive rolethat the Communist Party played in all domains of life in the Soviet Union andin the creative process in particular. This led to the emergence ofNonconformists, a new wave of artists, and quite a few of them were women.

Author : Renee Baigell,Matthew Baigell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0813529468

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Peeling Potatoes, Painting Pictures by Renee Baigell,Matthew Baigell Pdf

How do women artists in Russia, Estonia and Latvia view themselves in the post-Soviet era? What is their relationship to feminism and how has that relationship changed following the fall of the Soviet regime? Having conducted over 60 interviews between 1995 and 1998, Renee and Matthew Baigell explore in this volume these women's difficulties of pursuing an art career in a male-dominated society, and the attitudes of their male counterparts toward feminist concerns.

Author : Jessica Zychowicz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487513757

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Superfluous Women by Jessica Zychowicz Pdf

Superfluous Women tells the unique story of a generation of artists, feminists, and queer activists who emerged in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. With a focus on new media, Zychowicz demonstrates how contemporary artist collectives in Ukraine have contested Soviet and Western connotations of feminism to draw attention to a range of human rights issues with global impact. In the book, Zychowicz summarizes and engages with more recent critical scholarship on the role of digital media and virtual environments in concepts of the public sphere. Mapping out several key changes in newly independent Ukraine, she traces the discursive links between distinct eras, marked by mass gatherings on Kyiv’s main square, in order to investigate the deeper shifts driving feminist protest and politics today.

Author : Anya von Bremzen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307886835

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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Pdf

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations “Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”—NPR’s All Things Considered Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Women
ISBN : OCLC:250502757

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Soviet Women by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marilyn Rueschemeyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315288918

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Soviet Emigre Artists by Marilyn Rueschemeyer Pdf

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.

Author : T. M. Zuyeva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105083075270

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Soviet Women in Science, Culture and Art by T. M. Zuyeva Pdf

Author : Mi︠u︡da I︠A︡blonskai︠a︡
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017899660

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Women Artists of Russia's New Age, 1900-1935 by Mi︠u︡da I︠A︡blonskai︠a︡ Pdf

Author : Julia L. Mickenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226256122

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American Girls in Red Russia by Julia L. Mickenberg Pdf

If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This choice was not as unusual as it seems now. As Julia L. Mickenberg uncovers in American Girls in Red Russia, there is a forgotten counterpoint to the story of the Lost Generation: beginning in the late nineteenth century, Russian revolutionary ideology attracted many women, including suffragists, reformers, educators, journalists, and artists, as well as curious travelers. Some were famous, like Isadora Duncan or Lillian Hellman; some were committed radicals, though more were just intrigued by the “Soviet experiment.” But all came to Russia in search of social arrangements that would be more equitable, just, and satisfying. And most in the end were disillusioned, some by the mundane realities, others by horrifying truths. Mickenberg reveals the complex motives that drew American women to Russia as they sought models for a revolutionary new era in which women would be not merely independent of men, but also equal builders of a new society. Soviet women, after all, earned the right to vote in 1917, and they also had abortion rights, property rights, the right to divorce, maternity benefits, and state-supported childcare. Even women from Soviet national minorities—many recently unveiled—became public figures, as African American and Jewish women noted. Yet as Mickenberg’s collective biography shows, Russia turned out to be as much a grim commune as a utopia of freedom, replete with economic, social, and sexual inequities. American Girls in Red Russia recounts the experiences of women who saved starving children from the Russian famine, worked on rural communes in Siberia, wrote for Moscow or New York newspapers, or performed on Soviet stages. Mickenberg finally tells these forgotten stories, full of hope and grave disappointments.

Author : Jessica Zychowicz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487501686

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Superfluous Women by Jessica Zychowicz Pdf

Using firsthand interviews, archival documents, and visual analysis, Superfluous Women explores the intersections between art, protest, and feminism in today's Ukraine.

Author : Jérôme Bazin,Pascal Dubourg Glatigny,Piotr Piotrowski
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789633866801

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Art beyond Borders by Jérôme Bazin,Pascal Dubourg Glatigny,Piotr Piotrowski Pdf

This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists’ strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.

Author : Francine du Plessix Gray
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 1853814652

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Soviet Women by Francine du Plessix Gray Pdf

In this book, the author brings us the voices of women doctors, dissidents, party workers, journalists and factory workers, who talk about their lives. It emerges that women continue to suffer a variety of injustices, and there is backwardness in sex education and women's health facilities.

Author : Matthew S. Witkovsky,Devin Fore
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300225716

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Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! by Matthew S. Witkovsky,Devin Fore Pdf

Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, providing a new understanding of where art was presented, who saw it, and how the images incorporated and conveyed Soviet values. More than 350 works are grouped into areas of critical importance for the production, reception, and circulation of early Soviet art: battlegrounds, schools, the press, theaters, homes and storefronts, factories, festivals, and exhibitions. Paintings by El Lissitzky and Liubov Popova are joined by sculptures, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, architectural models, books, magazines, films, and more. Also included are rare and important artifacts, among them a selection of illustrated children's notes by Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Allilueva, as well as reproductions of key exhibition spaces such as the legendary Obmokhu (Constructivist) exhibition in 1921; Aleksandr Rodchenko's 'Workers' Club in 1925; and a Radio-Orator kiosk for live, projected, and printed propaganda designed by Gustav Klutsis in 1922. Bountifully illustrated, this book offers an unprecedented, cross-disciplinary analysis of two momentous decades of Soviet visual culture.

Author : Julie Fedor,Samuel Greene,Andre Härtel,Andrey Makarychev,Andreas Umland
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838268866

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Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society by Julie Fedor,Samuel Greene,Andre Härtel,Andrey Makarychev,Andreas Umland Pdf

This special issue focuses on protest movements operating outside of the mainstream in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. Themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted environments, intersections between feminism and nationalism, the possibilities of right-wing feminism and pop feminism, the role of gender in high politics, and the relationship between nationality and sexuality in the context of protest movements. The journal features contributions by scholars, human rights and gender equality activists, and journalists, and facilitates wide-ranging discussion of recent and ongoing protest movements in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136599019

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Concise Dictionary of Women Artists by Delia Gaze Pdf

This book includes some 200 complete entries from the award-winning Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as a selection of introductory essays from the main volume.