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Selling Russia's treasures

The lessons of the museum sales / Mikhail Piotrovsky -- The temple of fine arts / Amir G. Kabiri -- Inspired by the past / Dmitry Gourji -- Citizens, preserve monuments of art! -- The Romanov treasure trail -- The pillage of the Russian Church -- Russian icons and art market / Yuri Pyatnitsky -- The...

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Other Authors: Semenova, Natalʹja Jurʹevna (Editor, Hrsg.)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Paris : The M. T. Abraham Center for the Visual Arts Foundation , 2013
New York, NY [u.a.] : Abbeville Press , 2013
Edition:1. ed.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Author Notes:ed. by Natalja Semyonova and Nicholas V. Iljine
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Summary:The lessons of the museum sales / Mikhail Piotrovsky -- The temple of fine arts / Amir G. Kabiri -- Inspired by the past / Dmitry Gourji -- Citizens, preserve monuments of art! -- The Romanov treasure trail -- The pillage of the Russian Church -- Russian icons and art market / Yuri Pyatnitsky -- The palace-museums / Rifat Gafifullin -- The destruction of the Hermitage / Elena Solomakha -- Museum of Modern Western Art : bargain sales of the 1920s-1930s / Alexey Petukhov -- Books for sale / Elena Emelianova -- Buyers, collectors and collections -- In place of an epilogue / Pavel Khoroshilov -- The Russian crown jewels / Victor Nikitin -- Russian icons in European collections / Yuri Pyatnitsky
Selling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light
Item Description:Revised and expanded translation of Prodannye sokrovishcha Rossii. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-356) and index
Physical Description:361 S zahlr. Ill 31 cm
ISBN:9780789211545
0789211548