Queer(ing) Russian art : realism, revolution, performance

Standing at the intersection of Visual Studies and Queer Studies, the volume Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance exposes and explores the queer imagery and sensibilities in works of visual art in pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and beneath the surface of conventional...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baer, Brian James (HerausgeberIn), Fiks, Yevgeniy 1972- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Brighton : Academic Studies Press, 2023
Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel:Myths and taboos in Russian culture
Schlagworte:Art and society Sex and art Homosexuality in art Sexual minorities in art Sexualité et art Homosexualité dans l'art Minorités sexuelles dans l'art Art et société - Russie Art et société - URSS Russland mehr... LGBT Kunst Geschichte 1700-2000
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (504 ungezählte Seiten)
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Zusammenfassung:Standing at the intersection of Visual Studies and Queer Studies, the volume Queer(ing) Russian Art: Realism, Revolution, Performance exposes and explores the queer imagery and sensibilities in works of visual art in pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and beneath the surface of conventional histories of Russian art.
Part One. Theoretical Framings -- 1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty -- Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context -- 2. "In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass": Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-Century Russian Art -- 3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov's Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love -- 4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov -- 5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka's Wartime Drawings -- 6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein's Homoerotic Drawings -- 7. Moscow Conceptualism's Erotic Objects -- 8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryanov -- 9. A Russian Schizorevolution? Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s -- 10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva's Art -- 11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe -- 12. "My Nationaliti Is My Sexuality": The Post-Soviet, Diasporic, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov -- Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists -- 13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: The Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze -- 14. Soviet Union, July 1991 -- 15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya's Material Evidence -- 16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene -- 17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent -- 18. A Queer (Re)claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview with Slava Mogutin.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (504 ungezählte Seiten)
ISBN:9798887192529
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