The Vogue for Russia : Modernism and the Unseen in Britain 1900-1930
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0748647295
ISBN-13
9780748647293
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 31st, 2015
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
458 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 23.60 x 1.40 cms
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Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960Literary studies: from c 1900 -History of ideas
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Explores the influence of Russian mystical aesthetics on British modernists. This book includes unpublished archive materials as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts. It also features the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism.
Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernists
In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and ''the Russian soul'' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergey Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield.
Key Features:
Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts
Addresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism
Challenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernisms
Combines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies
In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and ''the Russian soul'' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergey Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield.
Key Features:
Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts
Addresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism
Challenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernisms
Combines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies
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