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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons - Picture Book
by Editor-in-chief Zhang Mingzhou
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons - Picture Book Series, chief-edited by Zhang Mingzhou, the former president of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), is a set of picture books presenting the arts of music, literature, and drawing. The book series uses Tchaikovsky's piano suite "The Seasons" as the theme music, with the famous Russian pianist Andrei Ivanovich being invited to play the music (readers can scan the QR code and then listen). As the music mingles with vigorous poetry penned by renowned Russian writers including Pushkin and Tolstoy, the book creates a picturesque natural scene under the drawing pens of Oleynikov, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, Antonenkov, Gui Tuzi, Ma Xiaode, and other Chinese and Russian illustrators, allowing children to appreciate the beauty of nature in poetic reading
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History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900June 2011The Wanderers and Critical Realism in Nineteenth Century Russian Painting
Critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia
by David Jackson
The rise of critical realism in nineteenth-century Russia culminated in 1870 with the formation of the Wanderers, Russia's first independent artistic society. Through depictions of the harsh lives of the peasantry, the fate of political activists, Russian history, landscapes, and portraits of the nation's cultural elite, such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, the society became synonymous with dissident sentiments. Yet its members were far from being purveyors of anti-Tsarist propaganda and their canvases reflect also a warm humanity and a fierce pride for such nationalistic themes as Russian myth and legend. Through close readings of single canvases, investigations of major themes and a multi-disciplinary integration of the Wanderers within Russian society, this book gives the first comprehensive analysis of the crucial cultural role played by one of the most successful and genuinely popular schools of art, the legacy of which comprises a fascinating panorama of life and thought in pre-revolutionary Russia.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2001Railways and culture in Britain
The epitome of modernity
by Ian Carter, Jeffrey Richards
The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? The book's first half tests that assertion by comparing fiction and images by some canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. The second half proposes that if high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, then this does not mean that all British culture ignored this revolutionary artefact. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres. A final chapter contemplates cultural correlations of the steam railway's eclipse. If this was the epitome of modernity, then does the triumph of diesel and electric trains, of cars and planes, signal a decisive shift to postmodernity? ;
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January 1986Die Tolstois
Glanz und Elend einer berühmten russischen Familie - zugleich das Spiegelbild einer faszinierenden Epoche und ihres Niederganges
by Edwards, Anne / Übersetzt von Heinz, R E
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July 1962Erinnerungen an Zeitgenossen
by Maxim Gorki
Maxim Gorkis Zeitgenossen sind die großen Figuren des ausgehenden russischen 19. Jahrhunderts so gut wie die Schöpfer der nachrevolutionären Literatur Rußlands. In jedem Falle besticht seine scharfe und unabhängige Beobachtungsgabe, die die wirkliche Erscheinung mühelos von der an sie gehefteten Legende zu trennen weiß, gleichgültig ob er als der Jüngere dem Übergewicht der Älteren standhalten muß oder selbst ruhmreich ,und erfahren der heraufkommenden Generation ihr Recht zuteilwerden läßt.
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October 2010Krieg und Frieden
Die Urfassung. Roman
by Tolstoi, Leo / Russisch Trottenberg, Dorothea
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