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This four disc set looks at the life of art collector George Costakis and three of his favourite artists.The first film is about Costakis, one of the 20th century’s most prominent art collectors, who...
George Costakis is well known as the foremost collector of early 20th Century Russian avant-garde art. The walls of his public housing flat in Moscow are crowded with his rich collection of banned and...
In 1915 the Russian artist Kazimar Malevich declared a Black Square on a White Background to be the ‘face of the new art ... the first step of pure creation.' He saw his work as a (secular) icon of its...
This documentary explores the conceptual trend in nonconformist art of 1960-1980s in the USSR: art that arose out of a a spirit of resistance to the government-imposed style of Socialist Realism from the...
A three-part BBC series in which historian Andrew Graham Dixon unlocks the mystery, variety and history of Russia’s unique art. He begins with a celebration of the great age of the icon, when Russia was at...
A varied and colourful set of slides tracing the influences of tradition, culture and contemporary life in Russia on the work of three Russian embroidery artists: Galina Morozova, Marina Printzeva, and...
Follows two unorthodox Russian artists, from their first meeting in a Mosecow morgue to the painting of their early materpiece, ‘Biography of Our Contemporary’, to their arrival in New York.
Discusses official art in the Soviet Union; its organisation, its role in society and its history since the time of the experimental and subsequently repudiated period of the early 1920s. Dissident movements...
Introductory courses in history and theory of art; Russian art and architecture.*
Portrays the social and political upheavals of 15th century Russia through the life and experiences of icon painter Andrei Rublev. Shelved by the Soviet authorities and not seen until 1971.
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