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Between Heaven and Hell
W. Bruce Lincoln
其他書名
The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia
出版Viking, 1998
主題Art / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Russian & SovietHistory / GeneralHistory / Russia / General
ISBN06708756869780670875689
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IEDrAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋'How did a country with such a tormented past bring such stunning works of art into being? America's leading Russian historian, W. Bruce Lincoln, finds answers in a land uniquely suspended between East and West, past and future, sacred and secular, and in its suppressed artists? creative search for identity and inner freedom under tyranny.Examining Russia's masterpieces through the prism of its social and political history, Between Heaven and Hell synthesizes accounts of music, painting, architecture, literature, iconography, ballet, and cinema into a gripping saga. Transforming exhaustive archival research into a passionate story, this gorgeously illustrated volume brims with the silent mysteries of Byzantine Christianity, the dazzling Imperial splendor of the czars, and the poignant return of brutalized exiles to their homelands. The roster of artists?Pushkin, Tolstoy, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Kandinsky, Pavlova, Chagall, Pasternak'carries straight through to the contemporary ordeals of Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky. A fabulous gift for Russophiles, history buffs, and connoisseurs of all the arts, Between Heaven and Hell shows how the collision of social contradictions, imported art forms, and creative genius gave birth to the quintessential Russian experience.