RUSSIAN ART

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(Slashed with ARTH 42060 ) This course explores the history of Russian art starting with the legacy of Byzantium and continuing up through the end of the Soviet era, from about 1000 CE to the present. Russia’s artistic movements have borrowed from a wide variety of cultures, both from groups that have attacked and conquered Russian territories as well as from groups that Russians themselves have conquered and attacked. The course focuses on art that was produced in Russia as well as the cross-cultural influences that shaped and changed this art. Painting is a dominant focus, coupled with a broad study including decorative arts like porcelain and embroidery as well as architecture, performance and illustration.