LEADER 04319nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910452399203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613723475 010 $a90-04-22559-5 010 $a1-280-88216-6 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004225596 035 $a(CKB)2550000000109676 035 $a(EBL)965056 035 $a(OCoLC)799766325 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000716004 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11468990 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000716004 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10705682 035 $a(PQKB)10066393 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC965056 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004225596 035 $a(PPN)174394993 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL965056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578512 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL372347 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000109676 100 $a20120403d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde$b[electronic resource] $ethe life and times of Nikolay Punin /$fby Natalia Murray 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (439 p.) 225 1 $aRussian history and culture,$x1877-7791 ;$vv. 9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-20475-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aThis book is the first biography of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953). One of the most prominent art-critics of the avant-garde, in 1919 Punin was the Commissar of the Hermitage and Russian Museums, he was lecturing at the Academy of Arts and at the State University in Petrograd (and subsequently Leningrad). He was the right hand of Lunacharsky and the head of the Petrograd branch of the Visual Arts Department of Narkompross. From 1913 till 1938, Punin worked at the Russian Museum and organized several major exhibitions of Russian art. Yet his name is not widely known in the West, primarily because his file languished in the KGB archives since he died in 1953, partly because his grave in the Gulag where he died is marked only by a number, and partly because his own reputation became submerged under that of his lover, poet and writer Anna Akhmatova. Through the life and inheritance of Nikolay Punin, this book will examine the very phenomenon of the Russian avant-garde and its fate after the October Revolution, as well as the artistic trends and cultural policies which dominated Soviet art in the 1930-1950s. For an interview with the author on The Voice of Russia (July 19th, 2012): click here . 410 0$aRussian history and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ;$vv. 9. 606 $aArt critics$zRussia$vBiography 606 $aArt critics$zSoviet Union$vBiography 606 $aArt, Russian$zRussia$y20th century$xHistory 606 $aArt, Russian$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zRussia$xHistory 606 $aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$zSoviet Union$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArt critics 615 0$aArt critics 615 0$aArt, Russian$xHistory. 615 0$aArt, Russian$xHistory. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory. 615 0$aAvant-garde (Aesthetics)$xHistory. 676 $a709.2 676 $aB 700 $aMurray$b Natalia$0995810 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452399203321 996 $aThe unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde$92281794 997 $aUNINA