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The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde: The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin (Russian History and Culture): 9
Author(s): Natalia Murray (Author)
- Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
- Publication Date: 27 Jun. 2012
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 354 pages
- ISBN-10: 900420475X
- ISBN-13: 9789004204751
Book Description
The first biography of Nikolay Punin, this book offers a comprehensive analisys of his life in the context of Russian political, social and cultural history in the first half of the XX century.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This is an important book that is extensively researched and well written. However, what makes this a significant text also is that the author had access to personal archives. The rich primary material here is taken predominately from the Punin archive held by the subject’s granddaughter, Anna Kaminskaya, and her son. Other useful sources are from the archive at the Akhmatova Museum. One of the strengths of the book is that Murray includes a large number of quotations from Punin’s beautifully written articles. She has also helpfully reproduced a full list of his books and articles at the end. Most of them have never been re-printed, or even translated from Russian, so she provides an invaluable service for other scholars. No doubt after this publication, further translations of his writings will be undertaken and other historians will be inspired to do more research on this great unsung hero of the Russian avant-garde.” – Theodora Clarke, in: East-West Review: Journal of the Great Britain-Russia Society, Winter Edition 2012, p.39
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The Voice of RussiaAbout the Author
Natalia Murray graduated from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg before taking the PhD course at the Hermitage Museum in 1995. In 1998 she moved to England; over the past five years she has been lecturing on XIX-XX c. Russian Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art and at the University of Sussex. In 2010 she started her second PhD course at the Courtauld.
