In this lavishly illustrated volume that includes nearly 400 color images, renowned scholar and photographer of Russian architecture William Craft Brumfield surveys the centuries-long tradition of wood-built buildings, ranging from cabins to churches to estate homes.
In this lavishly illustrated volume that includes nearly 400 color images, renowned scholar and photographer of Russian architecture William Craft Brumfield surveys the centuries-long tradition of wood-built buildings, ranging from cabins to churches to estate homes.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
William Craft Brumfield is Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University. Brumfield, who began photographing Russia in 1970, is the foremost authority in the West on Russian architecture. He is the author, editor, and photographer of numerous books, including Journeys through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Architecture at the End of the Earth: Photographing the Russian North, and Lost Russia: Photographing the Ruins of Russian Architecture, all also published by Duke University Press. Brumfield is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2002 he was elected to the State Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, and in 2006 he was elected to the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. He is also the 2014 recipient of the D. S. Likhachev Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of Russia. In 2019 he was awarded the Russian state Order of Friendship medal—the highest decoration of the Russian Federation given to foreign nationals—for his study and promotion of Russia’s cultural legacy. Brumfield’s photographs of Russian architecture have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums and are part of the Image Collections at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments ix Author’s Note xi Exordium xiii Introduction. Getting There 1 Part I. Wooden Architecture as Cultural Environment 1. From Palace to Dacha: High Art Revisits Folk Traditions 25 2. The Wooden Ambience of Russian Literature 73 Part II. Where the Folk Live: From Forest to Steppe 3. The Russian North: Toward the White Sea 117 4. The Heartland 241 5. Crossing the Urals 303 6. Into Siberia 325 7. The Far East 381 Conclusion. What Will Remain? 407 General Bibliograhy 411 Index
Acknowledgments ix Author’s Note xi Exordium xiii Introduction. Getting There 1 Part I. Wooden Architecture as Cultural Environment 1. From Palace to Dacha: High Art Revisits Folk Traditions 25 2. The Wooden Ambience of Russian Literature 73 Part II. Where the Folk Live: From Forest to Steppe 3. The Russian North: Toward the White Sea 117 4. The Heartland 241 5. Crossing the Urals 303 6. Into Siberia 325 7. The Far East 381 Conclusion. What Will Remain? 407 General Bibliograhy 411 Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
