Russian Visual Arts, 1863-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection

"Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 is an online research archive documenting the growth of diverse forms of commentary on the visual arts (particularly painting) in Russia from the early ninteenth- to early twentieth centuries" (from project web site; please see for more details).

Project

Academic field

History

Affiliation

University of Sheffield

Project link

Russian Visual Arts, 1863-1913: Documents from the British Library Collection

Funders

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

arts-humanities.net

Principal investigator

Professor Robert Russell

Principal project staff

Professor Robert Russell

Start date

Sunday, October 1, 2000

Completion date

Monday, September 1, 2003

Era

Modern

Place

Eastern Europe

Source material

"The archive is both a research oputput in its own right, and a research resource, designed to disseminate little-known primary material as fully as possible to a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists potentially comprising Russianists, cultural historians, art historians, literary specialists, theoreticians, and others more broadly concerned with the development of the European arts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries".

Data formats

JPEG File Interchange Format (JPG)

Publications

Carol Adlam, 'Realist Aesthetics in Nineteenth-century Art Writing'Slavonic and East European Review, 83.4 (2005): 638-63(ISSN 0037-6795)

Carol Adlam, 'The "Frisky Pencil": Aesthetic Vision in Russian Graphic Satire of the Period of the Great Reforms', Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, 3.2 (2004) (ISSN 1543-1002)

Carol Adlam and Alexey Makhrov , 'A Russian Kaleidoscope: Shifting Visions of the Emergence and Development of Art Criticism in the Electronic Archive Russian Visual Arts, 1800-1913', Art On the Line, 1 (2004) (ISSN 1478-6818)

Alexey Makhrov, 'The Pioneers of Russian Art Criticism: Between State and Public Opinion, 1804-1855', Slavonic and East European Review, 81.4 (2003): 614-33 (ISSN 0037-6795)