Queer(ing) Russian art : realism, revolution, performance /
"While the topic of queer sexuality in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union has been investigated for decades by scholars working in the fields of sociology, history, literary studies, and musicology, it has yet to be studied in any comprehensive or systematic way by those working in the visual...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Brookline, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Myths and taboos in Russian culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part One. Theoretical Framings
- 1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty
- Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context
- 2. "In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass": Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-Century Russian Art
- 3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov's Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love
- 4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov
- 5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka's Wartime Drawings
- 6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein's Homoerotic Drawings
- 7. Moscow Conceptualism's Erotic Objects
- 8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryanov
- 9. A Russian Schizorevolution?Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s
- 10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva's Art
- 11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe
- 12. "My Nationaliti Is My Sexuality": The Post-Soviet, Migrant, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov
- Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists
- 13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: The Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze
- 14. Soviet Union, July 1991
- 15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya's Material Evidence
- 16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene
- 17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent
- 18. A Queer (Re)claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview 345with Slava Mogutin
- 19. "Queer and Russian Art?" A Conversation between Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Godovannaya
- 20. Queering Sexual Minorities: An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks
- Index
