1st Edition
Soviet Museums Between the Two World Wars Art History on Display
By Maria Silina
Copyright 2026
220 Pages
3 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
3 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Examining the history of Soviet museums in the 1920s and 1930s, this book engages with the core problem of interwar museology: adequately representing the historical development of art to create a plausible and coherent version of its evolution.
The book critically analyzes the evolution of museology and art history during a period recognized as a crisis point for museums, characterized by... Read more
Introduction. Soviet Russian Museums Between Revolution and World War
Chapter 1. Locating Soviet Museum Theory and Practice: 1910s–1920s
Chapter 2. On Alternatives to the Modernist Agenda: The Everyday-Life Museum and the Question of Authenticity
Chapter 3. Art Education in Museums
Chapter 4. The Class Agenda and Mass Engagement
Chapter 5. Marxist Comprehensive Displays in Art Museums
Chapter 6. Temporality of the Canon: The Creation of a National History of Art in a Socialist Museum
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Biography
Dr. Maria Silina is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History of Art at University de Quebec, Montreal and a Visiting Fellow at CBEES, Södertörn University, Stockholm
