"Our native antiquity" : archaeology and aesthetics in the culture of Russian modernism

"Our native antiquity" : archaeology and aesthetics in the culture of Russian modernism / Michael Kunichika.

For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kunichika, Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2015.
Series:Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Russia (Federation)
Modernism (Aesthetics) > Russia (Federation)
Excavations (Archaeology) > Eurasia.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Antiquities
Archaeology
Excavations (Archaeology)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Arkeologi > influenser.
Modernism.
Eurasia > Antiquities.
Eurasia
Russia (Federation)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The archaeology of the stone Babas and the modernist inheritance
  • A cultural poetics of the Kurgan
  • Ancient statues, ancient terrors
  • How a modernist artifact is made : the "native antiquity" of the stone Babas and the indigenization of cubism
  • Velimir Khlebnikov, poet of the stone Babas
  • The landmarks of time : burial mounds, Eurasian necropolises, and modernist form in Boris Pil'niak's The naked year
  • Areas of deformation.

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