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

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix A Long Engagement Rosalind P. Blakesley Susan E. Reid Russian Art and the ``West'' 3(18) Promoting a Pan-European Art Rosalind P. Blakesley Aleksei Bogoliubov as Artistic Mediator between East and West 21(24) Opening up to Europe Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier The Peredvizhniki and the Miriskusniki Respond to the West 45(16) Decoration and Disconnection Karen Kettering The Russkii stil' and Russian Decorative Arts at Nineteenth-Century American World's Fairs 61(25) The Art of Pure Design Charlotte Douglas The Move to Abstraction in Russian and English Art and Textiles 86(26) Beyond Orientalism Jane A. Sharp Russian and Soviet Modernism on the Periphery of Empire 112(22) Mother of the World John McCannon Eurasian Imagery and Conceptions of Feminine Divinity in the Works of Nikolai Roerich 134(22) Soviet Schizophrenia and the American Skyscraper 156(84) Sona S. Hoisington Modernity and Realism Catherine Cooke Susan E. Reid Architectural Relations in the Cold War 172(23) Holiday on the Kolkhoz Alison Hilton Socialist Realism's Dialogue with Impressionism 195(22) Toward a New (Socialist) Realism Susan E. Reid The Re-engagement with Western Modernism in the Khrushchev Thaw 217(23) Notes on Contributors 240(2) Index 242