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- Hardcover
- Product Group
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- Weight
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- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Abbeville Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0789211548
ISBN-13
9780789211545
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166335253
Product Key Features
Original Language
Russian
Book Title
Selling Russia's Treasures : the Soviet Trade in Nationalized Art, 1917–1938
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Criticism & Theory, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
84.7 Oz
Item Length
11.9 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-275185
Reviews
With precision and passion, the authors take measure of the irreparable damage done to Russia's heritage for pitifully inadequate financial returns. An avidly researched, magnificently illustrated, and thought-provoking history of a country's once glorious artistic splendor squandered." — Booklist "This lavishly illustrated tome highlights what Soviet culture lost, including historic Russian icons and masterpieces by Rembrandt and Van Gogh. It also points out the cruel irony" of a revolution-ravaged USSR looking to the capitalist West for art purchasers. Among the buyers: American billionaire Andrew Mellon, who wound up donating his Russian-bought holdings to the National Art Gallery. A book for art lovers and history buffs alike." — The Seattle Times , gift guide selection "The plates are wonderful, each listing the work, the artist, the date of sale and the purchaser. The accompanying text adds much more context. Yes, you may be thinking, we know some of this — but not all, not in such detail, not so comprehensively discussed and documented. It would make a wonderful gift to someone this Christmas season." —Judith H. Dobrzynski, Real Clear Arts blog, "With precision and passion, the authors take measure of the irreparable damage done to Russia's heritage for pitifully inadequate financial returns. An avidly researched, magnificently illustrated, and thought-provoking history of a country's once glorious artistic splendor squandered." -- Booklist "This lavishly illustrated tome highlights what Soviet culture lost, including historic Russian icons and masterpieces by Rembrandt and Van Gogh. It also points out the "cruel irony" of a revolution-ravaged USSR looking to the capitalist West for art purchasers. Among the buyers: American billionaire Andrew Mellon, who wound up donating his Russian-bought holdings to the National Art Gallery. A book for art lovers and history buffs alike." -- The Seattle Times , gift guide selection "The plates are wonderful, each listing the work, the artist, the date of sale and the purchaser. The accompanying text adds much more context. Yes, you may be thinking, we know some of this -- but not all, not in such detail, not so comprehensively discussed and documented. It would make a wonderful gift to someone this Christmas season." --Judith H. Dobrzynski, Real Clear Arts blog, With precision and passion, the authors take measure of the irreparable damage done to Russia's heritage for pitifully inadequate financial returns. An avidly researched, magnificently illustrated, and thought-provoking history of a country's once glorious artistic splendor squandered." — Booklist
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
700.1/0309470904
Table Of Content
Introduction 5 Natalya Semyonova, Nicholas V. Iljine The Lessons of the Museum Sales 7 Mikhail Piotrovsky The Temple of Fine Arts 10 Amir G. Kabiri Inspired by the Past 11 Dmitry Gourji Chapter one Citizens, Preserve Monuments of Art! 14 Chapter two The Romanov Treasure Trail 28 Chapter three The Pillage of the Russian Church 60 Chapter four The Palace-Museums 96 Rifat Gafifullin Chapter five The Destruction of the Hermitage 128 Elena Solomakha Chapter six Museum of Modern Art. Bargain Sales of the 1920s--1930s 224 Alexey Petukhov Chapter seven Books for Sale 244 Elena Emelianova Chapter eight Buyers. Collectors and Collections Calouste Gulbenkian 260 Armand Hammer 266 Andrew Mellon 270 Joseph Davies and Marjorie Post 276 In Place of an Epilogue 283 Pavel Khoroshilov Appendix The Russian Crown Jewels 289 Victor Nikitan Russian Icons in European Collections 312 Yuri Pyatnitsky Archival Documents 324 Chronology 336 Main Participants 344 Collectors 350 Abbreviations 353 Bibliography 354 Index 357
Synopsis
This abundantly illustrated oversize volume presents the definitive account of the sale of Russia's cultural patrimony by the Soviet government in the interwar years Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light. Distributed for the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation, This abundantly illustrated oversize volume presents the definitive account of the sale of Russia's cultural patrimony by the Soviet government in the interwar years Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Faberg eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light. Distributed for the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation, This abundantly illustrated oversize volume presents the definitive account of the sale of Russia's cultural patrimony by the Soviet government in the interwar years Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Faberge eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light. Distributed for the M.T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation
LC Classification Number
N8725.P7613 2013
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