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The Ephrussi Netsuke: Roots and Remnants
Impressions. The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America. 2022. Vol. 43. No. 2. P. 109–116.
Evgeny Steiner
This is the analytical review of the exhibition called "The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance" (after the eponymous book by Edmund de Waal) which was held from November 2021 to May 2022 at the Jewish Museum in New York. The exhibition was centered around the collection of Japanese netsuke and included numoreous other artefacts of European and Japanese art as well as many archival documents and personal effects of the generations of the Ephrussi banking dynasty of Odessa, Paris and Vienna.
The review discusses the historical background of the collection and artistic value of the exhibits (netsuke and other) and analyses the exhibitioanl decisions and shotcomings of the exposition.
Поликарпова Д. А., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 432–441
This article is a review of Natalia Samutina's collection of texts «This Music is Too Beautiful: texts on cinema and more» (Moscow: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, 2025), edited by the author's colleagues, Boris Stepanov and Irina Kaspe. Considering the volume as a «seismograph of time», the author reconstructs the intellectual context of Russian film theory in ...
Added: October 4, 2026
Двоскин А. С., Коммуникации. Медиа. Дизайн 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 83–104
The article examines multisensory technologies in contemporary VR and XR art. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that such technologies are increasingly used not only to intensify the viewer’s experience, but also to model the experience of another body. The aim of the article is to show which sensory and technological ...
Added: October 1, 2026
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
Added: September 28, 2026
Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Limits of Control / K. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. — 44 p.: ill. — (one cup book). Series: one cup book. Study guide. 16+. Recommended for students of design and art history, as well as the general public. The three masters featured in this series shaped the ...
Added: September 21, 2026
Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2025.
Le Corbusier: Light, Concrete, and Asceticism / K. A. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinct creative logic, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is. The architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris—who adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920—appears as ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinctive logic of creative thought, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is.
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect who stood at the forefront of modern architecture and defined the vocabulary of modernism alongside Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
Added: September 10, 2026
Суворова А. А., Kazantseva E., Podlednov D., СПб.: Алетейя, 2026.
The authors of the monograph examine three aspects of the phenomenon of marginality in artistic culture from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The first part of the volume focuses on the processes and actors of the “borderlands” in the context of art and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The ...
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Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
This volume is a product of the conference “Proizvodstvo, Dokumentatsiia, Interventsiia. Proizvedeniia iskusstva v usloviiakh neofitsial'noi sovetskoi kul'tury 1960-80-kh gg.” (Production, Documentation, Intervention. Works of art in the conditions of unofficial Soviet culture, 1960s-1980s), organized by Ilja Kukuj and Brigitte Obermayr at Munich University (LMU) in November 2018. The conference was financed by Professor Riccardo ...
Added: August 28, 2026
Golovlev A., Научный вестник Московской консерватории 2026 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 352–357
Vincenzina C. Ottomano’s Quando l’opera russa diventò europea is an ambitious and carefully argued study of the reception of Russian opera in Italy and France from the 1870s to the first decade of the twentieth century. The book examines how Russian operatic works were reframed by critics, impresarios, patrons, and institutions and transformed into cultural ...
Added: August 19, 2026
Бейн П. В., Дубровская Д. В., Zinchenko S. et al., Институт востоковедения РАН, 2026.
Contrary to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's assertion that "the most beautiful thing in the stars, houses, and deserts is what the eyes cannot see," the authors of this monograph dispassionately test the harmony of beauty in the East through the algebra
of scientific analysis, continuing the work of their first book, "The Beautiful and the Utilitarian: From ...
Added: August 14, 2026
Borzenko V., Театралис, 2025.
Творчество Бориса Васильевича Щукина – одна из интереснейших страниц в истории сценического искусства, а для Театра им. Вахтангова и вовсе целая веха, прославившая коллектив в 1920-е – 1930-е годы. Его судьба прослеживается подробно с самых первых лет интереса к театру, участия в любительских кружках подмосковной Каширы, поступления в Вахтанговскую студию и до последних лет жизни. ...
Added: August 6, 2026
Irina A. Afanaseva, Pavel S. Sorokin, October 2026 No. 196 P. 69–79
This article examines the development and cultural significance of NFT art in Russia, framing it through the sociological lens of “neo-structuration” theory — a framework that foregrounds individual agency as a driving force within evolving social and technological structures. The authors argue that NFTs have emerged in Russia as a means for young and independent ...
Added: July 28, 2026
Пермь: [б.и.], 2026.
В сборнике представлены материалы Научно-практической конференции «Царствование Императора Николая I в истории России. К 200-летию восшествия на Престол», состоявшейся в Перми 10–11 июня 2025 г. Конференция была организована Администрацией губернатора Пермского края, Пермской митрополией Русской Православной Церкви, Фондом содействия возрождению традиций милосердия и благотворительности «Елисаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество» и Агентством по делам архивов Пермского края на ...
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Chukcheeva M., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 182–215
The article deals with the process of the domestication of the national past in Russian art using the example of V. I. Jacobie’s “Morning at the Court of Anna Ioannovna” (1872-1873). The painting was restricted to displaying at the 1873 Academy exhibition because it depicted aristocrats playing leapfrog in front of the sick Anna Ioannovna. ...
Added: July 15, 2026
Scientific publishing house Infinity, 2026.
Scientific Forum Proceedings combine materials of the conference – research papers and thesis reports of scientific workers. They examine technical, juridical and sociological aspects of research issues. Some articles deal with theoretical and methodological approaches and principles of research questions of personality professionalization. ...
Added: July 10, 2026
Ryabkov Y., Леонтьева А. В., Abramov R., Социология власти 2026 Т. 38 № 2 С. 230–261
This study analyzes art residencies in Russia as institutions that bring together artists, local contexts, and stakeholders. It focuses on three key aspects: strategies for institutional positioning within the art field and in relation to stakeholders; residents' practices regarding the local context; and the nature of the residencies' interactions with local residents. The institutionalization of ...
Added: July 4, 2026
Zamyslova V. A., Артикульт 2026 № №1(61) С. 61–75
The article addresses the methodological problem of analyzing performance as an interdisciplinary phenomenon that blurs the boundaries between art and everyday life. The aim of the study is to develop an analytical framework based on the sociological frame theory of Erving Goffman. The research material comprises contemporary art practices examined within the paradigm of performance ...
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Gromova A., КноРус, 2026.
Предназначено для востоковедов, изучающих персидский язык в рамках различных специализаций, таких как история, политология, регионоведение, филология, экономическое развитие стран Ближнего и Среднего Востока. Рассчитано на студентов востоковедных вузов второго курса, знакомит с основными этапами истории Древнего Ирана, туристским потенциалом этой многоликой страны, с национальными новостными и тематическими онлайн-ресурсами. Книга оставляет известную свободу в выборе материала ...
Added: June 29, 2026
Кровицкая А. В., Попов Д. И., Кравченко А. А. et al., Judaic-Slavic Journal 2024 № 11-12 С. 133–186
The collective research deals with the representation of the Holocaust memory in the media of Central-Eastern and Northern Europe in the second decade of the XXI century on the example of Germany, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. Each of these states, the article argues, is characterized by its own distinct memory ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Власов Е. Э., East European Jewish Affairs 2026
The present study answers the question of how Moscow's monuments and museums - "Sites of Memory" of the Holocaust – were conceived, negotiated, and materially realized in the 1990s, and analyzes how these memorials construct and sustain a post‑Soviet memory of Jews murdered by the Nazis. The theoretical framework encompasses conceptual apparatus from memory studies, ...
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Arkhipov A., Социология власти 2023 Т. 35 № 1 С. 93–117
In the first part of this paper, the author proceeds to identify and clarify three categories that are distinctive for the social philosophy of genocides: aim, subject, and method. The clarification of these categories makes meaningful the social philosophy of genocides. This makes it possible to distinguish between the social philosophy of genocides — and ...
Added: March 21, 2026
Власов Е. Э., Judaic-Slavic Journal 2024 № 1-2 С. 94–108
The site of the mass murder of Mountain Jews by the Nazis in the village of Bogdanovka, Stavropol Krai, is a place where several “memories” converge, supported by different players in the field of Politics of Memory. These memories include the Holocaust, specifically the fate of Mountain Jews, as well as the Holocaust more generally, ...
Added: July 18, 2025
Karpenkina Y., , in: Entanglements of War: Social Networks during the Holocaust.: Yad Vashem, 2022. P. 23–52.
Following the division of the territory of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939, the USSR gained more than 12 million former Polish citizens, among which some 10 percent were Jews.1 Further, the actual number of Jews in the newly annexed region increased with the arrival of refugees from the Generalgouvernement (part ...
Added: August 26, 2024