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SUBJECT AREA LEGEND




LESSONS BASED ON “Russia!”:

The Age of the Icon

The Age of Peter the Great

The Reign of Catherine the Great

The coming of age of Russian Art

Art and Society

The collections of Shchukin and Morozov

The Early 20th Century

Art and Ideology

Opening New Spaces

Russia!
Additional Resources

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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READING LIST

In the interest of simplifying the text of this guide, footnotes have been eliminated. Grateful acknowledgment for short citations and quotations is made to the auditors of the following works.

Bown, Matthew Cullerne, Socialist Realist Painting, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998.

Sarabianov, Dmitri V., Russian Art: from Neoclassicism to the Avant-Garde,
1800-1917: Painting – Sculpture – Architecture
, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1990.

Warnes, David, Chronicle of the Russian Tsars, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1999.

RUSSIAN ART – ADULT

RUSSIA!, (exhibition catalogue) Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,
New York, 2005.

Bown, Matthew Cullerne, Socialist Realist Painting,Yale University Press,
New Haven, 1998.

Froncek,Thomas, editor, The Horizon Book of the Arts of Russia, American
Heritage Publishing Co. Inc., New York, 1970.

Hamilton, George Heard, The Art and Architecture of Russia, Second Edition,
Penguin Books, England, 1975.

Lincoln, Bruce W. Between Heaven and Hell:The Story of a Thousand Years of Artistic
Life in Russia
, Viking Penguin Inc. New York, 1998.

Massie, Suzanne, Land of the Firebird:The Beauty of Old Russia, Simon and
Schuster, New York, 1980.

Sarabianov, Dmitri V. et al., Russian and Soviet Painting, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, 1977.

Sarabianov, Dmitri V., Russian Art: from Neoclassicism to the Avant-Garde,
1800-1917:

Painting – Sculpture – Architecture, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, 1990.

Rice,Tamar Talbot, A Concise History of Russian Art, Fredrick A. Praeger,
New York, 1963.

Warnes, David, Chronicle of the Russian Tsars, Thames and Hudson Ltd.,
London, 1999.

Russia: Land of the Tsars, The History Channel, A&E Television
Networks, 2003.

RUSSIAN HISTORY – ADULT

Billington, James, The Icon and the Axe:An Interpretative History of Russian
Culture
, Vintage Books, New York, 1970.

Buehr,Wendy, The Horizon History of Russia, American Heritage
Publishing Company, Inc., New York, 1970.

Freeze, Gregory L., Russia, a History, Second Edition, Oxford University
Press, New York, 2002.

Riasanovsky, Nicolas V., A History of Russia, Oxford University Press,
New York, 1993.

The Russian Chronicles:A Thousand Years that Changed the World, Thunder Bay
Press, California, 2001.

Steinberg, Mark, A History of Russia, Parts 1, 2 and 3, (CDrom),
The Teaching Company Ltd., Chantilly,VA, 2003.

Vernadsky, George, A History of Russia,Yale University Press,
New Haven, CT, 1986.

RUSSIAN HISTORY – YOUTH

Corona, Laurel, The Russian Federation, Lucent Books, San Diego, CA, 2001.

Fader, Kim Brown, Russia, Lucent Books, Inc., San Diego, CA, 1998.

Murrell, Kathleen Berton, Russia, Dorling Kindersley Limited, London, 1998.

Rogers, Stillman D., Russia, Children’s Press, a Division of Scholastic Inc, New York, 2002.

Strickler, Jim, Russia of the Tsars, Lucent Books, Inc. California, 1998.

Afanas’ev, Aleksandr, Russian Fairy Tales, Pantheon Books, Inc. New York, 1945.

WEBSITES

The Face of Russia. Companion to the PBS series focusing on Russian culture. http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/timeline-index.html

Russian Painting. A site designed by Dr. Alexander Boguslawski, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/ruspaint.html

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Includes information about
their extensive collections and virtual tours.
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

The Society of Tempera Painters. Technical and historical information on the
use of egg tempera. http://www.eggtempera.com.

The State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine art.
The collection consists of more than 130 000 works of Russian art.
http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/english/

Index of Russian art, with images of Russian paintings.
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/index.html