... of the educated class. It highlights the discovery of the medieval icon painting tradition. The chapter focuses on the reception of the 1913 Moscow Exhibition of Ancient Russian Art in contemporaneous modernist art criticism, an exhibition where the legacy of fourteenth- to early sixteenth-century Russian icon...

... Russian modernism aesthetic nationalism nationalist aesthetics modernist art The revolutionary events of 1917, with the fall of the monarchy in March and the Bolshevik coup in October (November, according to the European calendar), dramatically changed the agenda for all spheres of social and cultural...

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