William Craft Brumfield

From Forest to Steppe

The Russian Art of Building in Wood

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028246
• ISBN-10: 1478028246
• Artikelnr.: 71726699

Autorenporträt

William Craft Brumfield

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