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Russia's History Painters: Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov, and the Remaking of the Past

Russia's History Painters: Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov, and the Remaking of the Past

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  • Stephen M Norris
  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • Hardcover
  • 9781350097452
  • 7.79 X 5.08 X 1 inches
  • 1 pounds
  • History > Russia & the Former Soviet Union
  • English
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Beginning with the 1881 Itinerant Art Exhibition, this book examines the history of modern Russia through the paintings of Vasily Surikov and Viktor Vasnetsov, two of the most important Russian painters of the period. By placing specific paintings and their artists alongside the historical myths and legends depicted in the art, Stephen M. Norris explores in highly readable prose how paintings helped to bring obscure, half-forgotten historical events into the public imagination in the 19th century.

Russia's History Painters reveals how Russian history and national identity came to include Kievan princes, Orthodox Christian knights, Cossacks and Peter the Great, among many others. It also analyzes how critics and commentators interpreted these canvases as living entities, encouraging viewers to immerse themselves into the pasts captured on them, and in doing so, to assimilate notions of honour, bravery, and love for the motherland.

Analysing 11 pivotal artworks in depth, this accessible book helps you to understand how painting has defined Russian history and nationhood up to the present day.

Russia's History Painters: Vasily Surikov, Viktor Vasnetsov, and the Remaking of the Past

Author Bio

Stephen M. Norris is the Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and the Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Norris came to Miami in 2002, becoming the second faculty associate of the Havighurst Center, after receiving his Ph.D. in History that year from the University of Virginia. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and to Professor in 2012. In 2018, Norris received the Distinguished Scholar award from Miami.

Norris’s research focuses on modern Russian history with an emphasis on visual culture and propaganda since the 19th Century. His first book, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2006), examines how the wartime lubok—a Russia popular print—acted as an important source for expressing Russian national identity across the nineteenth century. 

His second book, Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism (Indiana University Press, 2012), analyzes the rise of Hollywood-style historical films in Putin’s Russia and how these new blockbuster movies captured patriotic sentiments. Norris is currently working on a biography of the most significant Soviet political caricaturist, Boris Efimov. Communism’s Cartoonist: Boris Efimov and the Soviet Century will not only tell the tale of Efimov, who lived from 1900 to 2008, it will also be a biography of Soviet propaganda and the Soviet experiment. 

Norris will be co-curating the first major exhibit of Efimov’s cartoons, currently planned for 2022 at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles.

In addition to this work, Norris has edited or co-edited six books. His Museums of Communism:  New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe was published by Indiana University Press in 2020. With Elena Baraban (University of Manitoba), he co-edited a book entitled The Akunin Project, the first scholarly study of contemporary Russia’s most popular author (University of Toronto Press, 2021). In 2018, along with Eugene Avrutin (University of Illinois), Norris created the “Russian Shorts” series with Bloomsbury Press. 

A series of thought-provoking books published in a slim, beautifully designed format, the books in the series will provide concise examinations of key concepts, personalities, and moments from Russian history and culture. The first book in the series, Pussy Riot: Speaking Punk to Power, was published in 2020. Norris’s The History Painters, on the Russian artists Viktor Vasnetsov and Vasilii Surikov, will also appear in the series in 2022.

As a teacher, Norris has received the Miami University Student Government Outstanding Professor Award (2006) and in 2017 was named the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Educator. He teaches a number of classes, including Introduction to Russian and Eurasian Studies, A History of the Russian Empire, Soviet History, History at the Movies, History through Literature, and World History since 1945.

 

Source: Miami University 

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