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The predicament of Russian culture -- National culture: a conceptual reading -- What's in a term -- An interdisciplinary paradigm for the study of Russian culture -- The evolution of cultural discourse -- A crisis of culture -- Launching the discourse: international exhibitions and Russian texts -- "The great exhibition and the little one" -- Writing the Crystal Palace: Russian readings and misreadings -- The discovery of the Russian style, circa 1851 -- The Russian School of Art at the International Exhibition, 1862 -- Art and society: gathering culture, writing identity -- Defining Russia culturally: the national question and its representations -- The museum age in Russia -- The newspaper boom of the 1860s -- The feuilleton, or Russian culture "lite" -- Russian art as controversy -- Discursive practices -- Institutions and debates: negotiating art and power -- The millennium monument, 1862 -- The imperial Hermitage -- Narratives of the Academy of Fine Arts -- The Russian art world in the news: painting and controversy -- "Realism and nationality": the rise of a Russian realist aesthetics -- Art in motion: the itinerant exhibitions and the Tretiakov Gallery of Art -- Art for the public? The Russian Museum of Alexander III -- Built out of words: history and stylization -- Culture in the Russian style -- Moscow, the seat of national culture -- "A festival of public activity": the birth of the Historical Museum, 1872-1883 -- National revival writ large: from a cult of antiquity to a souvenir identity -- The Russian cult of antiquity -- Reinventing tradition in Abramtsevo, Talashkino, and beyond -- Tales of a national revival: the Snow Maiden and Lefty -- The triumph of Berendeevka: the making of Russian souvenir identity, Paris 1900 -- Epilogue. The world of art in the news: culture wars at the turn of the century. |
