The big change
Subtitle: revolutions in Russian painting, 1895-1917
By: edited by Sjeng Scheijen with contributions by John E. Bowlt ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bonnefantenmuseum
Publisher: Bonnefantenmuseum
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Maastricht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9789072251626
Subjects: Russian Painting; Exhibitions
Description: In the last twenty years before the 1917 revolution was a period of drastic change in the Tsardom. A bourgeois elite spread a wave of enlightenment throughout the still conservative society. And painting played a vital role in this cultural explosion. Unfortunately, this fascinating period is not well known in the West. The standard idea of a sleepy art world that was shaken awake by the Impressionists, for example, must be revised. There were innovative art scenes in St. Petersburg and Moscow long before the time of the 'modern revolution' of artists like Malevich and Kandinsky. In this tumult, there was no single overriding concept, but rather an incredibly lively debate on many different aspects. Exhibition: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, the Netherlands (12.3.-11.8.2013).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, March 9 - August 11, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Stijn Huijts; title: Introduction / Sjeng Scheijen; title: Towards the Avant-Garde: Russian art at the turn of the twentieth century / Evgenia Petrova; title: A rowdy camp - Jack of diamonds between left and right / Sjeng Scheijen; title: Mikhall Vrubel, Pavel Filonov and the birth of Russian psychoanalysis / Nicoletta Misler; title: The samovar and the chasm / John E. Bowlt; title: A life for art / Anna Winestein.