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A perceptive literary critic, a world-famous writer of witty and playful verses for children, a leading authority on children’s linguistic creativity, and a highly skilled translator, Kornei Chukovsky was a complete man of letters. As benefactor to many writers including Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky, he stood for several decades at the center of the Russian literary milieu. It is no exaggeration to claim that Chukovsky knew everyone involved in shaping the course of twentieth-century Russian literature. His voluminous diary, here translated into English for the first time, begins in prerevolutionary Russia and spans nearly the entire Soviet era. It is the candid commentary of ...
In this monumental work, Laurence Senelick and Sergei Ostrovsky offer a panoramic history of Soviet theater from the Bolshevik Revolution to the eventual collapse of the USSR. Making use of more than eighty years’ worth of archival documentation, the authors celebrate in words and pictures a vital, living art form that remained innovative and exciting, growing, adapting, and flourishing despite harsh, often illogical pressures inflicted upon its creators by a totalitarian government. It is the first comprehensive analysis of the subject ever to be published in the English language.
Un volume dedicato ai veri cultori dell’arte, dove potranno apprezzare non soltanto le recensioni critiche e le analisi effettuate sulle opere, ma anche ottenere una visione ampia del panorama artistico attuale. Artisti contemporanei che hanno già segnato la storia, e che hanno lasciato una traccia senza dubbio indelebile per originalità, maestria, innovazione assoluta che porta l’occhio attento del critico e del cultore – lettore, in un mondo meraviglioso, costituito prevalentemente da forme e colori, da prospettive e concetti chiave, da passione e razionalità che si intrecciano per dare vita al solo vero, unico mezzo attuale, per informarsi ed affacciarsi al mondo dell’arte. L’arte che segna la storia, l’arte che emoziona, l’arte che trasmette, l’arte che supera le dimensioni dello spazio e del tempo e porta lo spettatore verso confini sconosciuti, quelli del cuore. Recensioni ed analisi critiche a cura del Dr. Alessandro Costanza, critico e storico dell’arte.