From the Peredvižniki’s Realism to Lenin’s Mausoleum: The Two Poles of an Apocalyptic-Palingenetic Path

On 27 October 2007, a very beautiful exhibition entitledTruth and Beauty: Russian Realismopened in Potenza, Italy. The exhibition brought together 80 works, selected by the Latvian National Museum of Riga, covering a time span of nearly a century, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s. The ai...

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1. Verfasser:	Chiara Cantelli
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aesthetic judgment Aesthetic objects Aesthetics Applied arts Architecture Art exhibitions Art genres and movements Art history Art objects Artistic realism Arts Arts participation Avant garde Axiology Beauty Burial structures Constructivism Epistemology Funerary architecture Mausoleums Metaphysics Modernist art Ontology Philosophy Reality Socialist realism
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Zusammenfassung:	On 27 October 2007, a very beautiful exhibition entitledTruth and Beauty: Russian Realismopened in Potenza, Italy. The exhibition brought together 80 works, selected by the Latvian National Museum of Riga, covering a time span of nearly a century, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1950s. The aim of the exhibition was to show the evolution of Realism in Russia, starting from the works of the so-calledPeredvižniki, who had initiated the movement, and ending with the propaganda posters of Stalinist Socialist Realism. I did not see the exhibition, but I had the opportunity to admire and study its