Valentin Serov: Portraits of Russia's Silver Age
Northwestern University Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-8101-1826-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2149-2
Library of Congress Classification ND1329.S47V35 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 759.7
Paper: 978-0-8101-1826-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-2149-2
Library of Congress Classification ND1329.S47V35 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 759.7
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Valentin Serov (1865-1911) burst onto the art scene at the age of twenty-two with his portrait Girl with Peaces. In a short time he became the preeminent portraitist of Russia's Silver Age.
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier weds art criticism to social history in her study of Serov. She casts the artist's work against the Gilden Age of turn-of-the-century Russia, an era when money and consumption abounded and revolutionary change was taking place at all levels of society. Painting prominent people of the day in business, government, the nobility, and the arts, Serov created a gallery of Russia's important figures--figures seen with a sharp eye and painted with subtle irony.
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier weds art criticism to social history in her study of Serov. She casts the artist's work against the Gilden Age of turn-of-the-century Russia, an era when money and consumption abounded and revolutionary change was taking place at all levels of society. Painting prominent people of the day in business, government, the nobility, and the arts, Serov created a gallery of Russia's important figures--figures seen with a sharp eye and painted with subtle irony.
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