In this sweeping tale of history, one of America's leading Russian historians examines Russia's rich artistic legacy through the prism of its social and political history, synthesizing accounts of music, painting, architecture, literature, iconography, ballet, and cinema. Gorgeously illustrated and exhaustively researched, Between Heaven and Hell brims with the silent mysteries of Byzantine Christianity, the dazzling Imperial splendor of the czars, and the poignant return of brutalized exiles to their homeland. Assessing ...
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In this sweeping tale of history, one of America's leading Russian historians examines Russia's rich artistic legacy through the prism of its social and political history, synthesizing accounts of music, painting, architecture, literature, iconography, ballet, and cinema. Gorgeously illustrated and exhaustively researched, Between Heaven and Hell brims with the silent mysteries of Byzantine Christianity, the dazzling Imperial splendor of the czars, and the poignant return of brutalized exiles to their homeland. Assessing the creative struggles and triumphs of such figures as Pushkin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Pavlova, Chagall, Pasternak, Eisenstein, Diagilev, Solzhenitzyn, and Brodsky, Lincoln shows how the collision of social contradictions, imported art forms, and creative genius gave birth to the quintessential Russian experience.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xv, 511pp, index, bw & col ills. Some bug spotting on top edge otherwise an excellent copy. Explores ten centuries of artistic endeavor in Russia. He focuses on novelists Dostoevskii, Tolstoi, and Nabokov; poets Pushkin and Joseph Brodsky; composers Musorgskii and Chaikovskii; painters Marc Chagall and Natalia Goncharova-as well as lesser known artists considered by the Russians to be among their greatest talents. Also looks at the silent mysteries of Byzantine Christianity, the splendor of the tsar's courts, the building of great cathedrals and even the development of the language itself.
