Between Heaven And Hell: The Story Of A Thousand Years Of Artistic Life In Russia; Author: Lincoln, W. Bruce; Paperback

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Between Heaven And Hell: The Story Of A Thousand Years Of Artistic Life In Russia

Author: Lincoln, W. Bruce
Paperback; Illustrations (Some Colour)
511 pages
Published: February 2000
Penguin Books Australia Ltd
ISBN: 0140267735

In this sweeping tale of history, one of America's leading Russian historians examines Russia's rich artistic legacy through the prism of its social and political history, synthesizing accounts of music, painting, architecture, literature, iconography, ballet, and cinema. Gorgeously illustrated and exhaustively researched, Between Heaven and Hell brims with the silent mysteries of Byzantine Christianity, the dazzling Imperial splendor of the czars, and the poignant return of brutalized exiles to their homeland.Assessing the creative struggles and triumphs of such figures as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Pavlova, Chagall, Pasternak, Eisenstein, Diagilev, Solzhenitzyn, and Brodsky, Lincoln shows how the collision of social contradictions, imported art forms, and creative geniusExplores the social and political aspects of Russian art in a saga that spans Byzantine Christianity, the czarist splendor, the return of brutalized exiles to their homelands, and the artists who captured these moments.

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