The Vogue for Russia: Modernism and the Unseen in Britain 1900-1930

Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernistsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748647293','ISBN:9780748647309']);In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of...

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Main Author: Maclean, Caroline (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Summary:Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernistsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748647293','ISBN:9780748647309']);In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and 'the Russian soul' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield. Key Features: Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual artsAddresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernismChallenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernismsCombines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (240 pages) 26 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9780748647309
DOI:10.1515/9780748647309

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