Medieval Popular Humor in Russian Eighteenth Century <i>Lubki</i>

Farrell, Dianne E.

doi:10.2307/2499852

Slavic rev.

1991

DOI: 10.2307/2499852

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Medieval Popular Humor in Russian Eighteenth Century Lubki

Dianne E. Farrell

Abstract: Russian lubki, or popular prints, of the eighteenth century reveal clearly an archaic premodern humor. Since 1945 much seventeenth century and early eighteenth century urban popular literature, which before existed only in manuscript books, collections of stories, and plays, has been published and has revealed a native tradition of popular humor in Russian print.' The appearance in popular prints of various characters and activities from the popular festive culture, scenes from popular theatricals, parodies of… Show more

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Crafting Nation: The Challenge to Russian Folk Art in 1913

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In 2007, the New York Public Library ran an exhibition, "Russia Imagined 1825-1925: The Art and Impact of Fedor Solntsev," which provided an illuminating view of the beginnings of Russia's folk art revival. Solntsev was best known for Antiquities of the Russian State (1853), a lavish illustrated catalogue of ancient and medieval artifacts from the Kremlin treasuries. Funded personally by Nikolai I, Solntsev's catalogue pioneered the use of medieval forms as a means of articulating a distinct national culture. In his inventories and paintings, the artist combined such disparate elements as Scythian weapons, ancient Greek statuary, Byzantine regalia, and medieval manuscripts "into a single, palpable vision of Russian history, a cross section of culture, geography, and time." 1 The curator of the exhibition Wendy Salmond convincingly argues that Solntsev created a unified synthesis of the cultures that existed before Peter the Great's westernizing reforms of the eighteenth century. Moreover, as the basis for what became known as the "Old Russian" style, Solntsev's revivalist vision was an enduring one. What was most striking, however, was how effectively Solntsev's version of "Old Russia" served the interests of the imperial state, creating an ideological union of pre-and post-imperial Russia. As Salmond writes, Solntsev's work betrays "an overwhelming emphasis on the hierarchy, symbols, and rites of the Orthodox Church and the Romanov dynasty," that was designed to "[bind] the peoples of the Russian Empire together around a single 'Great Russian idea'." 2The seamless bond between "Old Russia" and absolute monarchy that Solntsev achieved for Nikolai I was often imitated, modernism / modernity volume sixteen, number four, pp 743-765.

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