Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration and Conventions

Contributors

Louise Hardiman et Nicola Kozicharow

1. Introduction: Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art

• Between East and West: Religion in Russian Art
• Paths to Modernism: Realism and Nationalism
• Symbolism and the Age of Enquiry
• The Icon Rediscovered
• Revolution and its Aftermath
• Modernism and the Spiritual: From Symbolists to Soviets

Maria Taroutina

2. From Angels to Demons: Mikhail Vrubel and the Search for a Modernist Idiom

Louise Hardiman

3. ‘The Loving Labourer through Space and Time’: Aleksandra Pogosskaia, Theosophy, and Russian Arts and Crafts, c. 1900–1917

• Unconventional Spirituality and the Neo-National Movement
• Pogosskaia: A Brief Biography
• Theosophy and Russian Arts and Crafts
• Conclusion

Myroslava M. Mudrak

4. Kazimir Malevich, Symbolism, and Ecclesiastic Orthodoxy

Oleg Tarasov

5. Spirituality and the Semiotics of Russian Culture: From the Icon to Avant-Garde Art

Nina Gurianova

6. Re-imagining the Old Faith: Goncharova, Larionov, and the Cultural Traditions of Old Believers

Sebastian Borkhardt

7. ‘Russian Messiah’: On the Spiritual in the Reception of Vasily Kandinsky’s Art in Germany, c. 1910–1937

Wendy Salmond

8. Ellis H. Minns and Nikodim Kondakov’s The Russian Icon (1927)

• Writing the Text (1915–25)
• Translating the Text (1921–25)
• Reception and Reactions
• The Russian Icon Revived and Revisited

Nicola Kozicharow

9. Stelletsky’s Murals at Saint-Serge: Orthodoxy and the Neo-Russian Style in Emigration

Natalia Murray

10. The Role of the ‘Red Commissar’ Nikolai Punin in the Rediscovery of Icons

Jennifer Brewin

11. Ucha Japaridze, Lado Gudiashvili, and the Spiritual in Painting in Soviet Georgia

• Becoming an Artist in Early Soviet Georgia
• Fantastic City: Japaridze and Tiflis in the 1910s and 1920s
• Ucha Japaridze and Symbolism in Georgia
• Animals and Psychological Symbolism in Japaridze’s Mature Painting
• “Georgia as an Oriental Woman”
• Conclusion

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