TY - GEN T1 - Picturing Russia's men : masculinity and modernity in 19th-century painting T2 - "Art & Visual Culture 2020. A1 - Leigh, Allison, 1983- LA - English PP - New York PB - Bloomsbury Visual Arts YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1199037528 AB - "The sense of estrangement felt by men during the nineteenth century has been called many things - a crisis in masculinity, the mal de siècle, even a psychological disorder known as neurasthenia - but as a phenomenon, such masculine discontent has gone largely unexplored outside of the western European and American contexts. In this ground-breaking new investigation, Allison Leigh explores how Russian painters sought to depict the new psychological struggles associated with modernity and the implications such visual manifestations of anxiety had for masculinity at the time. Drawing on a wide variety of source material, including previously untranslated letters, journals, and contemporary criticism, Leigh investigates how men's lives changed as they experienced the cultural upheavals of the nineteenth century. In so doing, she introduces readers to Russian artists such as Pavel Fedotov, Karl Briullov, Il'ia Repin, and Ivan Kramskoi, all of whom produced masterpieces of realist art in dialogue with paintings made in European artistic centers at the time. The result is a more culturally discursive account of art-making in the nineteenth century, one that challenges some of the enduring myths of masculinity and provides a fresh interpretive history of what constitutes modernism in the history of art"-- OP - 288 CN - ND1460.M38 L45 2020eb SN - 9781501341823 SN - 1501341820 SN - 9781501341809 SN - 1501341804 SN - 9781501341793 SN - 1501341790 SN - 9781501341816 KW - Masculinity in art. KW - Modernism (Art) : Russia. KW - Painting, Russian : 19th century : Themes, motives. KW - Art and society : Russia : History : 19th century. KW - Masculinité dans l'art. KW - Modernisme (Art) : Russie. KW - Peinture russe : 19e siècle : Thèmes, motifs. KW - Art et société : Russie : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Art and society KW - Masculinity in art KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Painting, Russian : Themes, motives KW - Russia KW - 1800-1899 KW - History ER -