scholarly journals The Great Patriotic War in the fate of the Leningrad artist I.V. Varzar

Author(s):  
E.I. Darius

The main purpose of the article is to present the art and biography of the artist Irina Varzar, who worked in the field of book and easel graphics. Her works are well known to Soviet art historians, but a systematic study of the artist's biography and work has not yet been done. This article for the first time lays the foundations for a detailed study of the artistic heritage and biography of I.V. Varzar. The novelty of the work lies in the fact that on the basis of archival sources, an important stage of the artist's life in Barnaul during the great Patriotic war (1941–1945) is restored. There she was evacuated from besieged Leningrad. For the first time, the graphic works of the artist created in Altai are described in detail. The article uses a comprehensive methodological approach — the main art history analysis is expanded through archival research and the method of historical and biographical reconstruction. The main results include the introduction into the scientific and art history of a number of works by Irina Varzar, a systematic presentation of the main stages of the artist's creative biography. For the first time, her works of the period of the Great Patriotic War are analyzed in detail and the main techniques of the artistic method are shown. Основная цель статьи состоит в том, чтобы представить искусство и биографию художницы Ирины Васильевны Варзар, работавшей в области книжной и станковой графики. Ее работы хорошо известны историкам искусства советского времени, но системного исследования биографии и творчества художницы еще не сделано. Настоящая статья впервые закладывает основы подробного изучения художественного наследия и биографии И.В. Варзар. Новизна работы заключается в том, что на основании архивных источников восстанавливается важный этап жизни художницы в Барнауле в период Великой Отечественной войны (1941–1945 гг.). Туда она была эвакуирована из блокадного Ленинграда. Впервые подробно описываются графические работы художницы, созданные ею на Алтае. В статье применен комплексный методологический подход — основной искусствоведческий анализ расширен за счет архивоведческих изысканий и метода историко-биографической реконструкции. К основным результатам стоит отнести введение в научный и искусствоведческий оборот ряда произведений Ирины Варзар, систематическое изложение основных этапов творческой биографии художницы. Впервые подробно анализируются ее работы периода Великой Отечественной войны и показываются основные приемы художественного метода.

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
M.A. KOMOVA ◽  

The purpose of the article is to present the history veneration of icons-copies of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, who was located in the fortress of Mozhaisk. The iconography of «Nikola Mozhaisky» or «Nikola the Feat» was distin-guished by the image of a sword in the right hand of the Saint. The historical and cultural study of the icon «Nikola Mozhaisky, the Miracle of Nicaea» from the collection of the Orel museum of local history is being conducted for the first time. The author offers a comprehensive method of historical and art history research with a combination of the method of art history analysis of the subject.The author dates the subject to the last third of the 16-th century, defines the historical and cultural context of this subjectorigin and existence, and also considers the historical and artistic sources of and similar objectsoriginin late medieval Russian culture.


Author(s):  
E.A. Skorobogacheva

The article is devoted to the Museum of the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. With the help of a comprehensive analysis, the history of the foundation of the museum by Ilya S. Glazunov in the 1980s and 1990s, the stages of enriching the Museum's collections in the 2000s and 2010s are studied. The purpose of the study is to characterize the activities of the Academy's museum, to justify the importance, the value of Museum collections, primarily in the educational process in mastering the skills of the realist school. The combination of historical, problem-logical, typological-systemic methods made it possible to evaluate the samples of professional art, to give their interpretation against the background of the general historical situation and the processes that determine the development of the national culture of the present time. For the first time among the rarities of the Academy's museum, more than 20 works of painting and graphics of the 19th — first half of the 20th century, included in the state part of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation, are marked, their art history analysis is given, and their artistic value is revealed. The study revealed the role of I.S. Glazunov as an outstanding public figure, philanthropist, collector. В статье посредством применения комплексного анализа изучена история основания И.С. Глазуновым музея Российской академии живописи, ваяния и зодчества в 1980–1990-х годах, этапы пополнения музейных коллекций в 2000–2010-е годы. Цель исследования — охарактеризовать деятельность музея академии, обосновать актуальность, значение музейного собрания, прежде всего, в учебном процессе — в овладении навыками реалистической школы. При сочетании исторического, проблемно-логического, типологически-системного методов оценены образцы профессионального искусства, дана их интерпретация на фоне общей исторической ситуации и процессов, определяющих развитие отечественной культуры настоящего времени. Впервые среди раритетов академического музея обозначено более 20 произведений живописи и графики XIX – первой половины ХХ века, включенных в государственную часть Музейного фонда Российской Федерации, дан их искусствоведческий анализ, раскрыта художественная ценность. В результате исследования выявлена роль И.С. Глазунова как выдающегося общественного деятеля, мецената, коллекционера.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-167
Author(s):  
Wang Kaidi ◽  

The article is devoted to the Opera "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" by the Chinese composer Tang Jianping based on the same-named novel by Boris Vasilyev. The theme of the Great Patriotic War, which for the first time became the plot of the Chinese Opera, was in tune with the theme of the Chinese Resistance to the Japanese Invasion. The composition synthesizes the characteristics of the European opera type in its Russified version, which was reflected in the heroic and epic dramaturgy and multi-part musical text. Russian folklore allusions, quasi- quotes from Russian operas, military-patriotic and Soviet mass songs reflect the author's method. The integrity of musical dramaturgy was given by the leitmotif, which became the main marker of Russian identity in the Opera. The Opera lacks a naturalistic embodiment of the War, and depicts the enemy in a conventional, symbolic way, in the form of unnamed but recognizable figures. The creators of the play sought to reveal the barbaric essence of the War, its anti-human character, to present the psychological state of the heroes and the manifestation of their human nature. The theme of the death of young girls gave a special perspective to the Opera, which is particularly acute in China due to gender disparity. The concept of the composer, director and screenwriter reflects the ideological constants of traditional Chinese culture, which gave the Opera an internal subtext.


Author(s):  
S. T. Makhlina ◽  

In the history of wars, humanity has more than once met with the blockade of cities of one of the belligerent countries. The blockade of Leningrad introduced a new page in the history of mankind. The artists who lived in the city during the blockade did not stop their work, understanding it as their civic duty, contributing to confronting the enemy and giving hope to achieve victory. Every day on the streets of Leningrad there were propaganda posters, caricatures of enemies, which were created by graphic artists, painters and sculptors. The works created by them entered the treasury of Soviet art and represent its golden fund. Despite all the difficulties of life in the besieged city, exhibitions were organized in it. The years of the Great Patriotic War inscribed a special page in the history of Soviet art, reflected the life of Leningraders in the besieged city and their struggle for victory over the enemy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
V. Chechyk ◽  

This article is dedicated to the study of the nature of E. Agafonov’s creative ties with the theater – a topic that has been insufficiently covered in the native art history. The author’s field of view is set in the artist’s early Kharkiv period, marked as the years of 1905–1913. The article focuses on the exceptional role of E. Agafonov in the organization and the artistic practice of the first modernist theater “Blakytne Oko” in Kharkiv (1909–1911). Agafonov belonged to the constellation of masters who was very sensitive to the problem of evolving the artistic speech. He viewed the theater as a convincing platform for promoting and approving of the latest artistic values, discovered by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Experiments in easel art (with color, plastic, line, techniques, materials, etc.), largely inspired by the work of D. Burliuk (1906–1908), were directly reflected in Agafonov’s stage practice, namely in numerous designs of the modernist productions based on plays by M. Maeterlinkc, A. Schnitzler, S. Pshybyshevsky and O. Blok. In turn, it was established that theatrical motives were reflected in E. Agafonov’s easel art, as well as in the art of the students of his artistic studio – O. Rybnikov, I. Terentyev, M. Sinyakova, and K. Storozhnichenko. In this regard, a special attention is given to the linocuts by F. Nadezhdin. It was found that the program of “total” design of theatrical space (stage and auditorium), as well as the implementation of production ideas in the cabaret theater “Blakytne Oko” were the result of the master’s fascination with the concepts of artistic synthesis, actualized in the era of Modern. Agafonov moved from dramatization of paintings (of A. Beklin, F. Malyavin, and O. Rodin) to staging experimental show-programs like “The Evening of Autumn”, “Visiting Pierrot” and “In the Middle of Nowhere”, partial reconstruction of which was undertaken for the first time by the author of the article. Agafonov was close to the idea of artistic synthesis, identified by him in F. Malyavin’s paintings, in V. Komissarzhevska’s theatre and I. Duncan’s choreography. The study of E. Agafanov’s theatrical art expands the understanding of the history of formation and development of Ukrainian scenography at the beginning of the twentieth century.


Author(s):  
Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Boitсova

This article examines the iconographic heritage of the Old Believer Lipovan Rogachevsky-Nikita family in the context of history of Romanian rural localities. Based on the expedition material, analysis is conducted on the peculiarities of folk icon and local traditions that established in the Old Believer center of Romania. The reviewed documentary sourced were acquired in the course of expeditions and further personal contact with the family. The collected material contains history of the family of iconographers, their lifestyle and customs, conditions for fulfilling the orders that are closely related to the history of this rural locality and way of life of the Nekrasov Cossacks. The research is of applied nature in the area of art history, as well as of interdisciplinary in nature. The article employs the methods of stylistic and historical-cultural analysis; biographical method for reconstruction of biography of the family members and their artistic heritage. New records on the dynasty of Romanian iconographers are introduced, which expands  the information on the Lipovan icon and indicate regional peculiarities of its creation. The author also introduces the new names and monuments of iconography into the scientific discourse that allows clarifying the attribution. The artistic heritage of iconographers of the late XIX – early XX centuries is also introduced into the scientific discourse: Rogachevsky-Nikita; in the XX century – Egor Nikitovich Nikita and Roman Egorovich Nikita.


Author(s):  
Nataliya Abramovna Rozenberg

The interest in the history and culture of Argentina in the Russian Federation today has a special char-acter. It is believed that the presence of a huge number of immigrants from Europe, including from Russia, distinguishes Argentina culturally from oth-er countries of the New World, makes its culture more understandable. There is a perception that this is the most Europeanized country in South America. To a large extent, this ideologeme is the result of foreign policy pursued by Argentina itself. At the same time, the process of the formation of national identity in here was complicated and did not end until the 40s of the 20th century. The relevance of the study is to reveal the inconsistency of this process on the material of sculpture as a document of the era, to show the rejection by masters from a remote region of the country, the province of Chaco, the prevailing ideas about the barbarity and savagery of the Indians and Gauchos, the original population of this province and part of other territories of the state. The novelty lies in the comparative compari-son of the positions of the academic art history of Argentina and academic art in the understanding of Indian themes and in how it was interpreted by re-gional masters – K. Dominguez (died in 1969), C. Schenone (1907–1963), J. de la Mena (1897–1954), as well as in the art history analysis of significant works of the considered problematic and the roman-tic tendencies manifested in them. It is advisable to correlate the process of “Europeanization” of Indi-ans, bloody and long-term hostilities in order to expel the gaucho and Indians from their ancestral lands with the understanding of who was the true hero of history in the creations of their descendants. The works of the sculptors Chaco, romantic in spirit, are related to the great J. Hernandez’s poem “Martin Fierro”. Today they are kept not only in the capital of Chaco, Resistencia, but also in museums in Buenos Aires and foreign collections


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 869-888
Author(s):  
Alexey Yu. Bezugolny

The present article continues the research about the role of the ethnic factor in Red Army recruitment during the Great Patriotic War, the first part of which was published in RUDN Journal of Russian History 19, no. 2 (May 2020). This time the focus is on admission restrictions and prohibitions for certain Soviet ethnic groups, as well as on purges from the army due to soldiers nationality. The contribution analyzes the major causes and the scale of this phenomenon, as well as the regulatory framework of restrictions and prohibitions and their development during the war. It is established that the reason for such restrictions could be political motives (distrust towards citizens on ethnic grounds), but also the ethno-cultural and linguistic features of conscripts coming from certain nationalities, with the idea that these features prevented their full use in military service. The article analyzes the practice of restrictions on ethnic grounds, including cases when military authorities in the field allowed for significant deviations from the regulatory framework. The scientific novelty of the present research consists in the fact that for the first time the ethnonational aspect of the history of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War is analyzed with quantitative methods, which made it possible to significantly deepen our understanding of ethnic processes in the Soviet armed forces.


Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6 (104)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Mikhail Kovalev

The article deals with the history of relations between Gregory Lukyanov, Russian Egyptologist and antiquarian, and his colleagues from the Kondakov Archaeological Institute in Prague in the 1930s. The article is based on materials from Czech archives (Archives of the Art History Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the collection of manuscripts of the Slavonic Library in Prague). The author of this work reveals the unknown page of the history of scientific communications in the midst of the Russian emigration, shows the existence of intellectual contacts between the «Russian Czechoslovakia» and «Russian Egypt». The article is devoted to the analysis of the internal contacts of Gregory Lukyanov, the motives of his professional activity abroad, the basic directions of his cooperation with colleagues from Prague and attempts to create there a collection of Coptic textiles and to publish its catalogue, which unfortunately failed. For the first time, the history of translation of «The Poem of Pentawer» by Lukyanov and attempts of publication of its Russian translation have been described. The author reveals the various contradictions between Gregory Lukyanov and his Prague colleagues that arose in the process of scientific communication.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Alonso

Seamlessly entwining archival research and sociological debates, The Last Abolition is a lively and engaging historical narrative that uncovers the broad history of Brazilian anti-slavery activists and the trajectory of their work, from earnest beginnings to eventual abolition. In detailing their principles, alliances and conflicts, Angela Alonso offers a new interpretation of the Brazilian anti-slavery network which, combined, forged a national movement to challenge the entrenched pro-slavery status quo. While placing Brazil within the abolitionist political mobilization of the nineteenth century, the book explores the relationships between Brazilian and foreign abolitionists, demonstrating how ideas and strategies transcended borders. Available for the first time in an English language edition, with a new introduction, this award-winning volume is a major contribution to the scholarship on abolition and abolitionists.


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