Bernstein Magda Nachman

An Artist in Exile
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-61811-970-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Modern Biographies

The political turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg and participation in the modernist ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War, to Berlin, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, Lina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface1. The Great Little Lady of the Bombay Art World
2. In Magda’s Footsteps
3. Once There Was and Once There Was Not
4. The School and the Teacher
5. The Constellation Leo
6. Koktebel
7. The Revolutions of 1917 and Their Aftermath
8. The People’s Theater at Ust'-Dolyssy
9. The Noskov Affair
10. M. P. T. Acharya
11. Exeunt Stage Left
12. The Emigrants
13. Bombay
14. A Case of Identity
15. In Quest of Magda’s Paintings
16. A Kindred Spirit
17. In MemoriamEpilogue
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Lina Bernstein taught Russian and comparative literature at Franklin & Marshall College. She is the author of Gogol’s Last Book and numerous articles on Russian art, literature, and culture. She recently curated an online exhibit on Magda Nachman for Moscow’s State Museum of Oriental Cultures and is preparing a Russian-language version of Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile.