The Firebird and the Fox

Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks

AvJeffrey Brooks

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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Showcasing the genius of Russian literature, art, music, and dance over a century of turmoil, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it, The Firebird and the Fox explores the shared traditions, mutual influences and enduring themes that recur in these art forms. The book uses two emblematic characters from Russian culture - the firebird, symbol of the transcendent power of art in defiance of circumstance and the efforts of censors to contain creativity; and the fox, usually female and representing wit, cleverness and the agency of artists and everyone who triumphs over adversity - to explore how Russian cultural life changed between 1850 and 1950. Jeffrey Brooks reveals how high culture drew on folk and popular genres, then in turn influenced an expanding commercial culture. Richly illustrated, The Firebird and the Fox assuredly and imaginatively navigates the complex terrain of this eventful century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-05-20
Mått:150 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108735872

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Jeffrey Brooks is Professor in the Department of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of When Russia Learned to Read (1985), which was awarded the 1986 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize, Thank You, Comrade Stalin (1999), and Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State (2006), with Georgiy Chernyavskiy.

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'Just before and after the October Revolution, the Russian literary, artistic, and performing arts enjoyed a moment of unprecedented brilliance. Brooks casts this Silver Age against the backdrop of Russia's radical renovations in commerce, industrial economy, and social structure - the result being a rich and effervescent synthesis of cultural, material, and political enquiry.' John E. Bowlt, University of Southern California

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction: an age of genius; Part I. Emancipation of the Arts (1850–1889): 1. Freedom and the fool; 2. Desire and rebellion; 3. Artists and subjects; 4. Anton Chekhov in his time; 5. The writer as civic actor; Part II. Politics and the Arts (1890–1916): 6. After realism: art and authority; 7. The performing arts: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; 8. Celebrity, humor, and the avant-garde; Part III. The Bolshevik Revolution and the Arts (1917–1950): 9. A new normal; 10. Irony and power; 11. An era of the fox; 12. Goodness endures; Epilogue.