Russian Realisms by Molly Brunson

Russian Realisms by Molly Brunson

One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to...

Molly Brunson has written a provocative, sophisticated, and illuminating study that focuses on the making of Russian realism through the collaborative effort of literature and painting in the period 1840 to 1890

* The Russian Review *

A substantial achievement of this study is that it indulges, excites and greatly enhances modern insights into nineteenth-century Russian realist painting.

* The Slavonic and East European Review *

In this splendid study, Molly Brunson sets out to reshape how we look at and think about nineteenth-century realist painting and the relationship between painting and narrative realism. Brunson succeeds masterfully at dislodging assumptions about Russian nineteenth-century Realism that are most stubbornly ensconced in accounts of visual art.

* Slavic and East European Journal *

Brunson's book underscores the power of close looking (and close reading). As she does, she weeds out the evolving urgency of Realism, pulling out both the historical and the transhistorical aspects of the movement. In doing so, she makes a convincing case not only for Russian Realism's place in the wider European and American discourse, but also for Realism as an ambitious project in its own right.

* The Burlington Magazine *

Molly Brunson is associate professor of Russian literature at Yale University.

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ISBN 13	9780875807386
ISBN 10	0875807380
Title	Russian Realisms
Author	Molly Brunson
Series	Niu Series In Slavic East European And Eurasian Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	2016-09-10
Number of pages	264
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