Picturing Russia's Men, 9781501341793
Hardcover
Russian art unveils 19th-century male discontent: masculinity redefined and reimagined.

Picturing Russia's Men

  • Hardcover

    296 pages

  • Release Date

    10 November 2020

Summary

Beyond the Brushstrokes: Unmasking Masculinity in Russian Art

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women’s and Gender Studies 2021.

In nineteenth-century Russia, a quiet discontent simmered amongst men, born not just from hardship, but from the struggle to reconcile conflicting ideals of masculinity. Picturing Russia’s Men offers a fresh perspective on masculinity and art history, venturing beyond Western norms to explore th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781501341793
ISBN-10:1501341790
Author:Allison Leigh
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:296
Release Date:10 November 2020
Weight:670g
Dimensions:156mm x 234mm
About The Author

Allison Leigh

Allison Leigh is Assistant Professor of Art History and the SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Endowed Professor in Art and Architecture at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. She is a specialist in European and Russian art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and her writing focuses primarily on the development of new art historical methodologies, masculinity studies, and the history modernism.

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