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Magda Nachman : An Artist in Exile / Lina Bernstein.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern BiographiesPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644692677
  • 9781644692691
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.2 B 23
LOC classification:
  • N6999.N23 B47 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Great Little Lady of the Bombay Art World -- 2. In Magda’s Footsteps -- 3. Once There Was and Once There Was Not -- 4. The School and the Teacher -- 5. The Constellation Leo -- 6. Koktebel -- 7. The Revolutions of 1917 and Their Aftermath -- 8. The People’s Theater at Ust-Dolyssy -- 9. The Noskov Affair -- 10. M. P. T. Acharya -- 11. Exeunt Stage Left -- 12. The Emigrants -- 13. Bombay -- 14. A Case of Identity -- 15. In Quest of Magda’s Paintings -- 16. A Kindred Spirit -- 17. In Memoriam -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the hardships of émigré Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Great Little Lady of the Bombay Art World -- 2. In Magda’s Footsteps -- 3. Once There Was and Once There Was Not -- 4. The School and the Teacher -- 5. The Constellation Leo -- 6. Koktebel -- 7. The Revolutions of 1917 and Their Aftermath -- 8. The People’s Theater at Ust-Dolyssy -- 9. The Noskov Affair -- 10. M. P. T. Acharya -- 11. Exeunt Stage Left -- 12. The Emigrants -- 13. Bombay -- 14. A Case of Identity -- 15. In Quest of Magda’s Paintings -- 16. A Kindred Spirit -- 17. In Memoriam -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index

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The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the hardships of émigré Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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