Fates of icons in the Soviet Union. 1920s-1930s.
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The icon is the main character of this book - the center of attraction for the actions of authorities, museum workers, traders, and buyers. One of the intriguing paradoxes of history is that the creators of the "non-market" Soviet economy made a significant contribution to the development of the global market for icon painting. At the turn of the 1920s-1930s, their efforts led to the creation of a colossal export icon fund, a grand advertising campaign - the first Soviet foreign icon exhibition, which presented to the world in all its splendor a new antique commodity - icons from the USSR, established connections with Western antique dealers, and organized sales of icon collections abroad. The search for currency for industrialization resulted in the development of global interest in icons. The book tells the story of museums and people (some of whom fate treated kindly, others mercilessly), how the grand icon collection of the State Museum Fund was created and liquidated, who and how selected icons for export, how many icons Russian museums sold, whether the sold icons were fakes, and what fate awaited the icons after the sale. The book is based on a vast amount of material collected by the author in archives in Russia, Europe, and the USA. Elena Osokina is a Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, laureate of the Makaryev Prize and the "Enlightener" Prize.
Author:
Author:Elena Aleksandrovna Osokina
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Romance & Love
Dimensions:
Dimensions:20.8x13.5x2.4 cm
Series:
Series:What is Russia
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1997-5
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