Marilyn Rueschemeyer

Broschiertes Buch

Soviet Emigre Artists

Beschreibung

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.

Autor

Marilyn Schattner Rueschemeyer, educated at the University of Toronto and at Brandeis University, where she completed her doctorate, is assistant professor of sociology at the Rhode Island School of Design and adjunct assistant professor of sociology at Brown University. She is also affiliated with the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and in 1979 and 1982 was a senior associate member of St Antony's College, Oxford. Rueschemeyer has conducted field research in Israel, the German Democratic Republic, and the USSR as well as in the United States. She is the author of Professional Work and Marriage: An East-West Comparison., Igor Golomshtok is an art historian and critic who specializes in the art of the Renaissance and of the twentieth century. Before his emigration from the Soviet Union he was a senior research fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and lectured on the history of Western art at Moscow University. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Artists. Since moving to England in 1972 Golomshtok has taught at Oxford University and worked for the BBC. He is also an editor of A-Ya, a multilingual periodical devoted to contemporary Russian "unofficial" art, published in Paris. In addition to a number of monographs, he is the author, with Alexander Glezer, of Soviet Art in Exile and with Andrei Sinyavsky of a book on Picasso., Janet Kennedy, who received her doctorate from Columbia University, is an associate professor in the School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. She has been a visiting fellow at the Kennan Institute and spent 1979-80 in the Soviet Union as a Fulbright-Hays scholar. Kennedy is the author of The "Mir iskusstva" Group and Russian Art 1898-1912 and many articles on modern art and sculpture, and is completing Mikhail Vrubel: An Art Historical Perspective on Russian Symbolism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780873328104
• ISBN-10: 0873328108
• Artikelnr.: 21847363