Syllabus
Basic movements, schools and developmental tendencies in Russian art within all-European context. Receiving of Christianity and its influence on Russian culture. The old Russian architecture.
Iconography. Moscow and St.
Petersburg as the two important culture centres. Russian art of 19th century ("peredvizhniki", "Mogutchaia kutchka"). Russian modernism.
Avant-garde movements. Emigrant, totalitarian and post-soviet art.
Annotation
Basic movements, schools and developmental tendencies in Russian art within all-European context. Receiving of Christianity and its influence on Russian culture. The old Russian architecture.
Iconography. Moscow and St.
Petersburg as the two important culture centres. Russian art of 19th century ("peredvizhniki", "Mogutchaia kutchka"). Russian modernism.
Avant-garde movements. Emigrant, totalitarian and post-soviet art.