Moscow : treasures and traditions
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Type of record: Book
Title: Moscow : treasures and traditions
Classmark: Large Leeds Russian Archive 8658
Additional creator(s): Allenov, M M (Other); Lincoln, W Bruce (Other); Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service (Other); Soviet Union. Ministerstvo kulʹtury (Other)
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in association with University of Washington Press
Publication city: Washington, D.C
Date(s): [1990]
Language: English
Size and medium: 281 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/637593
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001171389705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
"Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the USSR Ministry of Culture in association with the Seattle Organizing Committee of the 1990 Goodwill Games and the Seattle Art Museum"--Title page verso.
Exhibition shown at Seattle Art Museum from June through Sept. 1990 and at the Smithsonian Institution from Oct. 1990 through Feb. 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207).
Moscow : the cultural heartland of Russia / W. Bruce Lincoln -- Between heaven and earth : the external beauty of Moscow icons / Tatyana V. Tolstaya -- The golden age of Russian jewelry : Moscow metalwork, 1500-1800 / Irina A. Bobrovnitskaya -- Vessels of tradition : the kovsh / Julie Emerson -- A flowering of Russian style : Moscow metalwork, 1800-1910 / Galina G. Smorodinova -- A coat of mail and cold steel : the art of his majesty's armorers / Alexey K. Levykin -- "The tsar's highest favor" : Russian orders and medals / Valentina M. Nikitina -- "Gladdening the spirit" : a treasury of ecclesiastical textiles / Inna I. Vishnevskaya -- Spinning gold from Moscow threads : fashions and finery / Olga G. Gordeeva.
Hallmarks of perfection : porcelain of the Moscow region / Katrina V.H. Taylor -- Capital without a court : Moscow painting, 1700-1910 / Mikhail M. Allenov -- From avant-garde to avant-garde : Russian art, 1910-1990 / John E. Bowlt.
Moscow, the cultural heartland of Russia - Icons - Rusian jewelry - Vessels of traditions (the Kovsh) - Metalwork - The art of His Majesty's armorers - Russian orders and medals - Ecclesiastical textiles - Fashions and finery - Porcelain of the Moscow region - Moscow painting - Avant-Garde (Russian art, 1910-1990) - Rulers of Russia since 1462 - Political leaders, 1917-1985.
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