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Title: |
"Our Native Antiquity" |
| Sub-title: |
Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism |
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| By (author): |
Michael Kunichika |
| ISBN10-13: |
1618116649 : 9781618116642 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
348 |
| Weight: |
.489 Kg. |
| Published: |
Academic Studies Press - January 2018 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
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Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they found objects and sites long denigrated as archaeological curiosities. The book follows the exemplary careers of two objectsâ the so-called â Stone Womenâ and the kurgan, or burial moundâ and the attention paid to them by Russian and Soviet archaeologists, writers, artists, and filmmakers, for whom these artifacts served as resources for modernist art and letters and as arenas for a contest between vying conceptions of Russian art, culture, and history. |
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