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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “In excellent condition never read”
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- history
- Era
- 1918-1938
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9781931485074
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hillwood Museum & Gardens
ISBN-10
1931485070
ISBN-13
9781931485074
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71154932
Product Key Features
Book Title
Treasures Into Tractors : the Selling of Russia's Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Art, Exports & Imports, Art & Politics, Public Policy / Cultural Policy, American / General, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Political Science, Antiques & Collectibles, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
67.9 Oz
Item Length
10.8 in
Item Width
8.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2009-016441
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
For the first time readers can really see what Russia lost as a result of the Soviet drive to generate foreign currency: magnificent works of imperial porcelain; paintings by van Eyck, Titian, Rembrandt, and Rubens; Fabergé eggs; the furniture of David Roentgen; icons and illuminated manuscripts.
Dewey Decimal
700.1/0309747
Table Of Content
Director's Note / Frederick J. Fisher Foreword /Robert C. Williams Preface / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond Acknowledgments Introduction / Anne Odom and Wendy R. Salmond Part I: Soviet Culture after the Revolution 1. The Fate of Russia's Estate Houses and Their Contents, 1917-1930 / Priscilla Roosevelt 2. With Patriarch Tikhon's Blessing: Protecting and Restoring Works of Early Paintings / Irena Kyzlasova 3. A Soviet Museum Experiment / Natalia Semenova 4. Operation Duveen / Elena A. Osokina Part II: Soviet Museums and the First Five-Year Plan 5. The Hermitage, Gosmuzeifond, and Antikvariat / Elena Solomakha 6. Sales of Works from the Leningrad Palace Museums, 1926-1934 / Rifat Gafifullin 7. On the Third Front: The Soviet Museum and Its Public during the Cultural Revolution / Konstantin Akinsha and Adam Jolles Part III: Sales in Europe and the United States 8. Soviet Art Sales to Europe, 1919-1936 / Waltraud Bayer 9. Gone with the Wind: The Selling of Furniture by David Roentgen and Other Decorative Arts / Wolfram Koeppe 10. Russian Icons and American Money, 1928-1938 / Wendy R. Salmond 11. American Collectors of Russian Decorative Art / Anne Odom Part IV: Imperial Libraries and Archives 12. Behind the Stacks: American Acquisitions of Imperial Libraries / Kristen Regina 13. Books for Tractors? Interwar Dispersal and Sales of Russian Imperial Palace Books / Patricia Kennedy Grimsted 14. "The Tsar's Library: Books from Russian Imperial Palaces at the Library of Congress / Harold M. Leich 15. Book Dealers, Collectors, and Librarians: Major Acquisitions of Russian Imperial Books at Harvard, 1920s-1950s / Irina Tarsis 16. Romanov and Elite Provenance Materials in the New York Public Library / Robert H. Davis Jr. and Edward Kasinec Abbreviations Contributors Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Sixteen scholars from Russia, Vienna, and the United States explore the fate of Russian art collections and libraries following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the institutions and individuals responsible for their sale, and the prominent collectors, libraries, and museums that acquired them. Unlike the widely publicized controversy surrounding Soviet-Nazi war loot and its restitution, the sales of the interwar period are not well known outside a small scholarly community. This volume reveals the extent of the Soviet government's voluntary "realization" of Russia's cultural patrimony between 1918 and 1938 and its consequences for both the international art market and the perception of Russian art. The imperial Easter eggs by Faberg and Old-Master paintings purchased by Andrew Mellon from the State Hermitage and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are the most celebrated works that changed hands. Equally significant are the bibliographic rarities from imperial libraries, icons and liturgical art from churches and monasteries, and antiques, furnishings and fine art from estates, palaces, and private homes. See the review in the New York Times: http: //www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/ggantiques/list.html, Sixteen scholars from Russia, Vienna, and the United States explore the fate of Russian art collections and libraries following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the institutions and individuals responsible for their sale, and the prominent collectors, libraries, and museums that acquired them. Unlike the widely publicized controversy surrounding Soviet-Nazi war loot and its restitution, the sales of the interwar period are not well known outside a small scholarly community. This volume reveals the extent of the Soviet government's voluntary ?realization? of Russia's cultural patrimony between 1918 and 1938 and its consequences for both the international art market and the perception of Russian art. The imperial Easter eggs by Fabergé and Old-Master paintings purchased by Andrew Mellon from the State Hermitage and now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. are the most celebrated works that changed hands. Equally significant are the bibliographic rarities from imperial libraries, icons and liturgical art from churches and monasteries, and antiques, furnishings and fine art from estates, palaces, and private homes. See the review in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/ggantiques/list.html
LC Classification Number
N8725.T74 2009
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