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The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery (Hardcover, New)
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The Petrine Revolution in Russian Imagery (Hardcover, New)
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This is the second volume of James Cracraft's comprehensive study
of the cultural revolution engineered in Russia by Peter the Great.
Throughout the study, Cracraft explores how medieval Muscovy became
modern Russia, and situates the Petrine revolution in Russian
visual and verbal culture in its wider political, economic, and
social setting. In this volume, Cracraft considers the impact of
Peter's intensive programme of Europeanization on the visual arts,
and shows how modern forms of imagery came into being in Russia
along with allied techniques of image-making. Drawing on a wealth
of primary sources as well as numerous secondary works in Russian
and other languages, Cracraft discusses the advent in Russia of
painting in the Renaissance tradition, bronze and stone sculpture,
and the modern graphic arts. He also discusses the decline of
manuscript illumination, the rise of modern coinage, the production
of new-style flags and altar cloths, and the arrival in Russia of
the new cartography and the new heraldry. Special attention is
drawn to the early history of the St Petersburg Academy of Fine
Arts, and to the impact of Peter's programme on popular imagery and
on the cult art of the Russian Orthodox Church. The text argues
that the imagery of the Russian Empire can tell us as much or more
about its dominant ethos and ideology as can the written texts
normally studied by historians. This study is supported by numerous
illustrations, many of them not previously published. It should
appeal to art historians as well as to those interested in European
or modern history.
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