Angely v iskusstve XX–XXI vekov (Angels in art of the 20th and 21st centuries)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn cl. Thematic exhibitions risk unnatural juxtapositions since they combine works by different artists of various schools working at different times based on the curators’ perception of a common theme. This catalog of a current exhibition at the Russian museum in St. Petersburg uses a religious theme to try to gather paintings and sculptures created ironically i. secular and atheist societies. Over one third of the works we’re done by artists working before during or just after the 1917 revolution. For them the sense of a reckoning, even an Apocalypse, could be expressed best by supernatural images. The image of an angel became a motif in the works of modernist artists such as Mikhail Vrubel, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Nikolai Roerich, Natalia Goncharova, and Leonid Chupiatov. World War II spurred new movement toward spiritual and apocalyptic imagery. One of the few artists who managed to continue the experiments of the early twentieth century in mid century was Vladimir Sterligov for whom the angelic or spiritual was central to his work. 155 p., approx. 200 color illus., Rus. Item #3263
ISBN: 9785933326601
Chapter titles: Image of the angel in 20th Century art; the existence of angels or the angelic among contemporary artists; the herald’s have returned: Sterligov, his students and followers; Angels in the flesh in 20th-century sculpture; mythological and religious imagery in Russian ceramics and glass.
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