Centaur

The Life and Art of Ernst Neizvestny

Albert Leong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2002
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-2058-5 (ISBN)

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A chronicle of the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, the great Russian sculptor and philosopher of art who survived the Soviet police state to become a folk hero to his people. The volume is based on research in the Soviet archives and on interviews with Neizvestny and his family and friends.

Preserving art, freedom, and human dignity in the age of the totalitarian state was one of the great challenges of the twentieth century. In Centaur, Slavic scholar Albert Leong chronicles the life and work of the greatest living Russian sculptor and philosopher of art. Based on extensive research in the formerly closed Soviet archives, exclusive interviews with Neizvestny, his family, and friends, Centaur tells the amazing story of a visionary artist and World War II commando officer who narrowly escaped death on the battlefield, successfully defied Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and the KGB to create acclaimed works of monumental art. Forced into exile to the West in 1976, Ernst Neizvestny returned in triumph to the Soviet Union in 1989 to design the first monuments in Russia to the countless victims of Stalinist political repression. Supplemented by 75 photographs, Centaur will engross specialists and general readers interested in biography, cultural history, art, architecture, politics, and Russian/Soviet studies.

Visit the Ernst Neizvestny Studio Web site.

The late Albert Leong received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was professor emeritus of Slavic languages at the University of Oregon. A specialist on modern Russian culture and the leading Western authority on Ernst Neizvestny, he compiled and translated Neizvestny's Space, Time, and Synthesis In Art: Essays on Art, Literature, and Philosophy.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Odyssey of a Russian Artist
Chapter 2 Roots of a Russian Centaur
Chapter 3 The Formation of an Artist in the Soviet Union
Chapter 4 The Artist in War
Chapter 5 Riga
Chapter 6 Moscow
Chapter 7 The Challenger
Chapter 8 Art Intrigues
Chapter 9 Confrontation with Khrushchev
Chapter 10 The Years of Disfavor
Chapter 11 Ernst Neizvestny, Monumentalist
Chapter 12 Road to Emigration
Chapter 13 Exile
Chapter 14 Return to Russia
Chapter 15 The Gulag Triangle
Chapter 16 Mask of Mourning
Chapter 17 Shelter Found

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.8.2002
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 260 mm
Gewicht	943 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10	0-7425-2058-7 / 0742520587
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-2058-5 / 9780742520585
Zustand	Neuware