Peredvizhniki: mezhdy kommercheskim tovarishchestvom i khudozhestvennym dvizheniem (The peredvizhniki: between a commercial partnership and an art movement)
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii universitet, 2015. Sewn pb. The author has tapped many sources - internal documents like charters and protocols, correspondence, exhibition catalogues, reviews in newspapers and journals, photographs - to determine whether the artists' association that first exhibited in 1870 was an aesthetic movement or a pragmatic union seeking a way of exhibiting and flourishing apart from the academy. He considers the views of Russian and western art and social historians on the group variously known as the Itinerants, the Wanderers, critical realists, and draws conclusions on their artistic and political significance. This is the first study of the Society of Itinerant Artists (the Itinerants or Wanderers) from the point of view of a collective artistic movement that had commercial advantages for the organization and sale of paintings and social impact: the artists could express their critical views by the subjects they chose to paint. 332 p., 21 cm, approx. 50 b/w illus., Rus. With 6-page summary in ENGLISH. Item #1396
ISBN: 9785943801990
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