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The Collector : the Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces /
"A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art. world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; A NOTE ON THE TEXT; PREFACE; Images; Prologue; The Shchukin family; PART ONE The Collector Brothers; CHAPTER I The Gentleman Who Slept in His Box at the Bolshoy; A cup of tea; CHAPTER II Luther's Bible; CHAPTER III The Tragic Tales of the Older Brothers Nikolai and Petr; A Russian Tintin; The tsaritsa's kettledrum; Tales of Old Russia; The resplendent Petr Shchukin; CHAPTER IV Dmitry Shchukin 'The Dutchman'; The grand duke's grenadier; Dmitry Shchukin and Soviet Russia
- CHAPTER V Ivan Shchukin Portrait of the Younger Brother as a Parisian DandyPortrait of the Minister for the Arts; PART TWO Sergei Shchukin; CHAPTER VI An Oligarch in Moscow; The siren of the Dnepr; A different world; CHAPTER VII Strangers on a Train; Strangers on a train; The 'Cour des Miracles'; CHAPTER VIII The Storm; Brave little soldiers; Gone missing; CHAPTER IX The Debacle; The master on the mountain; CHAPTER X In the Footsteps of Moses; Mosquitoes and flies; CHAPTER XI The Price of a King's Wife; The Tahitian iconostasis; A heavenly banquet; CHAPTER XII Harmonie en Rouge1
- Blue toile de Jouy, glimpsed from an omnibusStill life with figure; CHAPTER XIII The Two Orphans; Dyadya Serezha and Baba Liza; Women and angels; A horse in the desert; CHAPTER XIV Quo Vadis?; Spirit-weariness; The gentleman from the land of the Scythians and the bibliophile count; The Little Flower Girl; CHAPTER XV La Danse and La Musique; The battle of Paris; The battle of Moscow; CHAPTER XVI The City of All-Night Revels; CHAPTER XVII Picasso the Hypnotist; The man who could have bought Les Demoiselles d'Avignon; The two fans; 'Terrifying dwarves'
- CHAPTER XVIII Portrait of a Chinese Patriarch1914; CHAPTER XIX The Acropolis of the Arts; Red October; CHAPTER XX The Exiles; An astrakhan hat; Quarrelling is easier than parting; CHAPTER XXI The World's First Museum of Modern Art; Farewell to the Trubetskoy Palace; CHAPTER XXII Time Regained; Postscript The Collector of the Future; ENDNOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INDEX