The fate of icons in the Land of Soviets. 1920s–1930s

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The fate of icons in the Land of Soviets. 1920s–1930s

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The icon is the main character of this book - the center of attraction for the actions of the authorities, museum workers, merchants and buyers. One of the intriguing paradoxes of history is that the creators of the "non-market" Soviet economy made a significant contribution to the development of the world market for iconography. At the turn of the 1920s-1930s, their efforts were used to collect a colossal export icon fund, carried out a grandiose advertising campaign - the first Soviet foreign icon exhibition, which in all its splendor presented the world with a new antique tov - icons from the USSR, established contacts with Western antique dealers and organized sales collections of icons abroad. The search for a currency for industrialization turned into the development of world interest in the icon. The book tells about the history of museums and people (fate treated some of them favorably, others ruthlessly), about how the grandiose icon collection of the State Museum Fund was created and liquidated, who and how selected icons for export, how many icons were given for sale Russian museums, whether the sold icons were fakes, and also about what fate awaited the icons after the sale. The book is written on the basis of a huge amount of material collected by the author in the archives of Russia, Europe and the USA. Elena Osokina - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, laureate of the Makariev Prize and the Enlightener Prize.

Barcode: 9785444819975 SKU: 70172660 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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