04319nam 2200745 a 450 991045239920332120200520144314.0978661372347590-04-22559-51-280-88216-610.1163/9789004225596(CKB)2550000000109676(EBL)965056(OCoLC)799766325(SSID)ssj0000716004(PQKBManifestationID)11468990(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000716004(PQKBWorkID)10705682(PQKB)10066393(MiAaPQ)EBC965056(nllekb)BRILL9789004225596(PPN)174394993(Au-PeEL)EBL965056(CaPaEBR)ebr10578512(CaONFJC)MIL372347(EXLCZ)99255000000010967620120403d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde[electronic resource] the life and times of Nikolay Punin /by Natalia MurrayLeiden ;Boston Brill20121 online resource (439 p.)Russian history and culture,1877-7791 ;v. 9Description based upon print version of record.90-04-20475-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One Origins of the Hero -- Chapter Two Education -- Chapter Three Winds of Change: The First World War and Emergence of the New Creativity in Russia -- Chapter Four The Dawn of New Hopes: The October Revolution and the Search for New Art -- Chapter Five No Future for the Futurists? Attempts to Educate the Masses -- Chapter Six Gathering Clouds, But High Heart -- Chapter Seven The Slow Strangulation of Free Culture -- Chapter Eight The Victory of Socialist Realism -- Chapter Nine Time of Terror -- Chapter Ten The Great Patriotic War -- Chapter Eleven The Broken Post-War Dreams -- Chapter Twelve Bitter End -- Bibliography of Published Writings of N. Punin -- Bibliography -- Index.This book is the first biography of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953). One of the most prominent art-critics of the avant-garde, in 1919 Punin was the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, he was lecturing at the Academy of Arts and at the State University in Petrograd (and subsequently Leningrad). He was the right hand of Lunacharsky and the head of the Petrograd branch of the Visual Arts Department of Narkompross. From 1913 till 1938, Punin worked at the Russian Museum and organized several major exhibitions of Russian art. Yet his name is not widely known in the West, primarily because his file languished in the KGB archives since he died in 1953, partly because his grave in the Gulag where he died is marked only by a number, and partly because his own reputation became submerged under that of his lover, poet and writer Anna Akhmatova. Through the life and inheritance of Nikolay Punin, this book will examine the very phenomenon of the Russian avant-garde and its fate after the October Revolution, as well as the artistic trends and cultural policies which dominated Soviet art in the 1930-1950s. For an interview with the author on The Voice of Russia (July 19th, 2012): click here .Russian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ;v. 9.Art criticsRussiaBiographyArt criticsSoviet UnionBiographyArt, RussianRussia20th centuryHistoryArt, RussianSoviet UnionHistoryAvant-garde (Aesthetics)RussiaHistoryAvant-garde (Aesthetics)Soviet UnionHistoryElectronic books.Art criticsArt criticsArt, RussianHistory.Art, RussianHistory.Avant-garde (Aesthetics)History.Avant-garde (Aesthetics)History.709.2BMurray Natalia995810MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452399203321The unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde2281794UNINA