Kunichika M. "Our Native Antiquity": Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Culture of Russian Modernism / Michael Kunichika. — Бостон : Academic Studies Press, 2015. — 345 c. — Базовая коллекция ЭБС "БиблиоРоссика". — Современная западная и российская иудаика. — Acknowledgments. — Note on Translation and Transliteration. — Introduction. — i. Archaic Mirrors. — ii. Elective Antiquities. — Chapter One. — The Archaeology of the Stone Babas and the Modernist Inheritance i. Rough Hewn Statues . — ii. Idols Destroyed, Idols Displaced. — and the Steppe Denuded iii. The Modernist Peregrinations of the Stone Babas. — Chapter Two. — A Cultural Poetics of the Kurgan i. How to Excavate a Kurgan. — ii. Gnedich, Iliada. — iii. Vantage Points, ca. — ISBN 978-1-61811-441-9; 978-1-61811-442-6. — <URL:http://www.bibliorossica.com/book.html?currBookId=20874>.
Аннотация
For Russian modernists in search of a past, there were many antiquities of different provenances and varying degrees of prestige from which to choose: Greece or Rome; Byzantium or Egypt. The modernists central to "Our Native Antiquity" located their antiquity in the Eurasian steppes, where they found objects and sites long denigrated as archaeological curiosities. The book follows the exemplary careers of two objects—the so-called “Stone Women” and the kurgan, or burial mound—and the attention paid to them by Russian and Soviet archaeologists, writers, artists, and filmmakers, for whom these artifacts served as resources for modernist art and letters and as arenas for a contest between vying conceptions of Russian art, culture, and history.
