Vahan D. Barooshian. The Art of Liberation: Alexander A. Ivanov. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. x, 105 pp. 17 black and white reproductions. $22.50 (cloth); $9.75 (paper).
1993; Brill; Volume: 27; Issue: 1-4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/221023993x00324
ISSN2210-2396
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Culture Studies
ResumoAleksandr Adreevich Ivanov (1806-58) was one of Russia's primary nineteenth-century painters, in spite of the fact that he spent most of his creative life abroad, in Italy. He was a monastic and eccentric individual who sought to fulfill what he regarded as a divine summons: consumed by his art in the same way that Mikhail Vrubel' and Pavel Filonov were after him, Ivanov concentrated his greatest efforts on a single opus-theAppearance of ■ Christ to the People or, as Barooshiancalls it, theMessiah'sAppearance(1837- 57), one of the most spectacular failures of modern Russian culture. The Art - of Liberation is
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