Russian Art (Pelican Art Ebook).pdf

Russian Art
Penguin Books | 1949 | ISBN: N/A | English | 312 pages | PDF | 33 MB

Authors who have set out to consider the art of a particular country or nation as a whole have adopted many different lines of approach; that selected by Mrs Talbot Rice in writing this book for Penguins is the historical, and the various manifestations of Russian architecture, painting, sculpture and the minor arts from the tenth century onward are here considered as an essential part of the wider historical background. The book provides what might be termed 'an art history of Russia', and if the culture of any country is to be properly understood, an art history is just as essential as a social, economic or political history. In doing this, however, the actual work of art, be it building, picture or sculpture, is never lost sight of, and the products of the various ages as a whole as well as the individual works of art themselves, are all considered from an artistic as well as an historical point of view.