xix, 268 pages, 47 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note
"Result of two scholarly projects, a lecture series and a symposium, which were held at the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1978 ... organized by the University of Minnesota Gallery with the Committee on Institutional cooperation and the Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R."--Pref.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Notes on the emergence and nature of the Russian intelligentsia / Nicholas Riasanovsky -- St. Petersburg and Moscow as cultural symbols / Sidney Monas -- On the Russianness of the Russian nineteenth-century novel / Donald Fanger -- Native song and national consciousness in nineteenth-century Russian music / Malcolm Hamrick Brown -- Russian art and society, 1800-1850 / S. Frederick Starr -- Russian painting in the nineteenth century / John E. Bowlt -- Russian painters and the pursuit of light / Joshua Taylor -- The intelligentsia and art / Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier -- Architecture in nineteenth-century Russia : the enduring classic / Albert Schmidt -- The neoclassical ideal in Russian sculpture / Janet Kennedy -- A survey of trends in the Russian decorative arts of the first half of the nineteenth century / Paul Schaffer -- Nineteenth-century Russian caricature / John E. Bowlt -- Russian folk art and "high" art in the early nineteenth century / Alison Hilton.
