The vogue for Russia : modernism and the unseen in Britain, 1900-1930 /

Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernistsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748647293','ISBN:9780748647309']);In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of...

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Main Author: Maclean, Caroline (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Edinburgh, Scotland : [2015]
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505 0 |a Intro -- Half-title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'Splinters and Mosaics': Bloomsbury Aesthetics Reconsidered -- 2 Russian Aesthetics and British Periodicals: Kandinsky, Sadleir and Rhythm -- 3 Voices of Stones: Mary Butts and Petr Ouspensky's Fourth Dimension -- 4 'That Magic Force that is Montage': Eisenstein's Filmic Fourth Dimension, Borderline and H.D. -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index 
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520 |a Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernistsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748647293','ISBN:9780748647309']);In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and 'the Russian soul' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield. Key Features: Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual artsAddresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernismChallenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernismsCombines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies" 
520 |a In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and 'the Russian soul' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield. Key Features:. Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts Addresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism Challenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernisms Combines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies 
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