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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452043603321

Autore

Stites Richard <1931-2010.>

Titolo

Serfdom, society, and the arts in imperial Russia [[electronic resource] ] : the pleasure and the power / / Richard Stites

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn. ; ; London, : Yale University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-73008-4

9786611730086

0-300-12818-5

Edizione

[1]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 586 p., [36] p. of plates) ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

700.1030947

Soggetti

Serfdom - Russia

Arts and society - Russia

Electronic books.

Russia Social life and customs 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-547) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What's in a Title? -- 1. Town and Country -- 2. The Domestic Muse -- 3. In Search of a Concert Hall -- 4. Inside the Capital Stages -- 5. An Unfolding Drama -- 6. Playing the Provinces -- 7. Academic Vistas -- 8. Exploring the Interior -- 9. When Did the Real Day Dawn? -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Serf-era and provincial Russia heralded the spectacular turn in cultural history that began in the 1860's. Examining the role of arts and artists in society's value system, Richard Stites explores this shift in a groundbreaking history of visual and performing arts in the last decades of serfdom. Provincial town and manor house engaged the culture of Moscow and St. Petersburg while thousands of serfs and ex-serfs created or performed. Mikhail Glinka raised Russian music to new levels and Anton Rubinstein struggled to found a conservatory. Long before the itinerants, painters explored town and country in genre scenes of everyday life. Serf actors on loan from their masters brought naturalistic acting from provincial theaters to the imperial stages.



Stites's richly detailed book offers new perspectives on the origins of Russia's nineteenth-century artistic prowess.