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"Our native antiquity" : archaeology and aesthetics in the culture of Russian modernism /

For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kunichika, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
Colección:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The archaeology of the stone Babas and the modernist inheritance
  • A cultural poetics of the Kurgan
  • Ancient statues, ancient terrors
  • How a modernist artifact is made : the "native antiquity" of the stone Babas and the indigenization of cubism
  • Velimir Khlebnikov, poet of the stone Babas
  • The landmarks of time : burial mounds, Eurasian necropolises, and modernist form in Boris Pil'niak's The naked year
  • Areas of deformation.