Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture and the Decorative Arts

Canadian Slavonic Papers | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

Rosalind P. Blakesley and Susan E Reid, eds. Russian Art and the West: A Century of Dialogue in Painting, Architecture and the Decorative Arts. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. 246 pp. Illustrations. Index. $42.00, cloth.

The main theme that unites the essays in this well-written, impeccably researched, and finely-illustrated volume is Russia's thrall with the West-its technology, its economy, and its art-a love affair whose intensity is matched only by Russia's contempt for the object of its obsession.

Rosalind Blakesley and Susan Reid have gathered the work of an impressive ...

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