||boek: Russische kunst - Met 52 illustraties|bewerking: A.V.C. Bartels|Bouw-,Schilder-,Beeldhouw-,Volkskunst,Kunstnijverheid|Phoenix Pockets [40]

||door: Tamara Talbot Rice

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1960
||druk: ?
||pag.: 146p
||opm.: pocket|zo goed als nieuw|vergeeld

||isbn: N/A
||code: 1:002184

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Russische Kunst: met 52 illustraties

Het gezichtspunt dat Tamara Talbot Rice heeft gekozen bij de presentatie van de Russische Kunst is het historische: de ontwikkeling van de bouwkunst, de schilderkunst en de overige kunsten (metaalwerk, borduurwerk, e.d.) wordt in dit boek beschreven tegen de achtergrond van de economische en de politieke geschiedenis, zonder dat het artistiek gezichtspunt hierbij overigens ooit uit het oog wordt verloren.

De schrijfster, die geboren en getogen is in Rusland, kent de Russische kunst dus uit eigen ervaring. En dit geeft haar boek een levendigheid en een authenticiteit die opvallend zijn.

Misschien denkt u bij de titel Russische Kunst het eerst aan de theorieën; die komen dan ook uitvoerig aan de orde. Maar er is meer, zoveel meer...

DE AUTEUR

TAMARA TALBOT RICE is geboren in St. Petersburg (tegenwoordig Leningrad). Zij verliet Rusland in 1919 en Studeerde te Oxford, Engeland. Haar gehele leven is zij door de Russische en Byzantijnse kunst gefascineerd geweest en zij geldt op dit gebied als een autoriteit. In 1935 was zij in de gelegenheid tijdens bezoeken aan Rusland haar kennis van de kunst van dat land te vernieuwen.

[bron: flaptekst]

Emphasis on Concise [2017-02-24]

There are many good things to say about A Concise History of Russian Art. However, just like art is a matter of taste so is one's opinion on books about art. For my personal taste, the bad parts of this work outweigh the good.

In its defense, for an academic subject the book is written in a refreshingly engaging tone. The artistic reproductions, many in color, are well selected and large enough to see the necessary details. Above all, the author brings the enthusiasm of a cultural ambassador to the subject.

However, the book tries to cover some 1000 years of Russian art (including folk art, architecture, sculpture and painting among others) in 250 pages, many of which are illustrations. Primarily because of this, reading the book is kind of like touring the Hermitage in an hour. Instead of real insight into why these artifacts are worthy of one's attention there is simply one superlative after another describing their beauty. In addition, despite being published in the 1960s the writer dismisses all post-revolutionary art as mere propaganda probably saying more about American-Soviet relations at the time than conveying real insight.

Overall, I think the subject needed more depth, especially as to why particular Russian works and artists are important instead of simply proclaiming this to be so.

Aran Joseph Canes [source: https--www.amazon.com]

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Tamara Talbot Rice (19 June 1904 - 24 September 1993) was a Russian then English art historian, writing on Byzantine, Russian, and Central Asian art.

Talbot Rice was born Elena Abelson, to Louisa Elizabeth ("Lifa") Vilenkin and Israel Boris Abelevich Abelson, the latter a businessman and member of the Czar's financial administration. Leo Tolstoy was her godfather. Elena lived a privileged childhood in St Petersburg, initially attending Tagantzeva Girls' School. The Russian Revolution of 1917 prompted her family to move to England, and she completed her schooling, first at Cheltenham Ladies' College and then at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

In 1927 she married the English art historian David Talbot Rice, and spent much time travelling abroad with him on archaeological digs; they both published under the surname Talbot Rice, but are often referred to as "Talbot-Rice" or "Rice". She was a close friend of Evelyn Waugh and formed part of the 'Brideshead Revisited Circle'.

She died in 1993 and was buried next to her husband in the churchyard of St Andrew's, Coln Rogers.

Publications (selected)

1959 Icons, London: Batchworth Press (revised edition 1960).
1963 A Concise History of Russian Art, 'The World of Art Library' series. London: Thames and Hudson.
1965 Ancient Arts of Central Asia, 'The World of Art Library' series. London: Thames and Hudson.
1970 Elizabeth, Empress of Russia, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

[source: wikipedia]

Rice, Tamara Talbot

Full Name: Rice, Tamara Talbot
Other Names: Tamara Talbot-Rice

• Gender: female

Date Born: 19 June 1904
Date Died: 24 September 1993
Place Born: St. Petersburg, Russia
Place Died: Gloucestershire, UK
Home Country: Russia
Subject Area: Byzantine (culture or style), Russian (culture or style)

Overview

Scholar of Russian and Byzantine art; wife of art historian David Talbot Rice. Abelson was the daughter of Israel Boris Abelevich Abelson, a businessman and finance officer to the czar, and Louisa Elizabeth ("Lifa") Vilenkin (Abelson) (d. 1954). Raised in privilege by governesses and (she was a god-daughter to Leo Tolstoy), she attended the Tagantzeva Girls' School in St. Petersburg until the Revolution in 1917 forced her family to flee, she and her mother to Finland and eventually to London and Paris. In England, she briefly attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and St. Hugh's College, Oxford, in 1921 before transferring to the Society of Oxford Home Students (now St. Anne's College). Abelson met many young Oxford scholars through the salon of Herbert E. ''Doggins'' Counsell, M. D. (1863-1946), including David Talbot Rice, her future husband, Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) and Harold Acton (1904-1994) both of whom she would remains friends. This group all formed to some degree the personalities for Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Her closest women friends were Christine Trew (1900-1980), later wife of sixth Earl of Longford, and Elizabeth Winifred "Jane" Martin (1902-1976), who later married the art historian Kenneth Clark. These women were the first generation of post-World War I female Oxfordites, disparagingly known as ''undergraduettes.'' Abelson failed the Oxford Home Students and was dismissed in 1924. After returning to her now impoverished family in Paris, she worked variously as a film extra, journalist, and traveled to New York where she was employed as a researcher for Professor Carlton Hayes of Columbia University. In 1927 she married Rice. The couple spent the next three years in Paris, where David Talbot Rice was studying under the great Byzantinist Gabriel Millet. She traveled with him to Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Persia, and Turkey on his excavations. Some of the digs she supervised personally. She contributed to the exhibition catalog on Russian art held at Belgrave Square, London, 1935 in conjunction with her husband and Tancred Borenius. The co-written book The Icons of Cyprus was published in 1937. During World War II, Talbot-Rice worked in the Ministry of Information in London in the Turkish division. After the war, she resumed publishing, with The Scythians in 1957, The Seljuks in Asia Minor in1961, and Everyday Life in Byzantium in 1967. Her final book, in 1970, was biography, Elizabeth Petrovna, empress of Russia, the first full biography of the ruler in English (and notable for its unusually positive view). After her husband's death in 1972 she began memoirs (published in fragmentary form in 1996 by her daughter). She died at the Talbot-Rice home in Gloucester.

Selected Bibliography

and Rice, David Talbot. The Icons of Cyprus. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1937; and Rice, David Talbot. Icons and their Dating: a Comprehensive Study of their Chronology and Provenance. London: Thames and Hudson, 1974; Icons. London: Batchworth Press, 1959; Ancient Arts of Central Asia. New York: Praeger, 1965; A Concise History of Russian Art. New York: Praeger, 1963; Czars and Czarinas of Russia. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1968; and Borenius, Tancred, and Rice, David Talbot. Russian Art. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1935; The Scythians. New York: F.A. Praeger, 1957; The Seljuks in Asia Minor. New York: Praeger 1961; and Rice, David Talbot. Icons: the Natasha Allen Collection. Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 1968;

Sources

Talbot-Rice, Elizabeth, ed. Tamara: Memoirs of St. Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium. London: Murray, 1996; Waugh, Evelyn. A Little Learning: the First Volume of an Autobiography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964; Powell, Anthony. Infants of the Spring. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976; Tarr, Roger. "Talbot-Rice, (Elena) Tamara." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; [obituaries:] Knox, James. The Independent September 29, 1993; Ballance, Selina. The Guardian October 2, 1993; The Times (London) October 14, 1993.

Lee Sorensen [source: https--arthistorians.info/ricet]

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This autobiography charts the travels of Tamara Talbot Rice. It encompasses pre-Revolutionary Russia, emigre penury in London and Paris, Oxford in the Brideshead years and country life in Gloucestershire, as well as pioneering digs in Asia Minor and academic life in Edinburgh.

[source: https--www.amazon.com.be]

Elena Tamara Talbot-Rice, Born Abelson (June 19, 1904 - September 24, 1993) was a scholar of Russian and Byzantine art; wife of art historian David Talbot Rice.

Works

• with Tancred Borenius and David Talbot Rice, Russian Art, London: Gurney and Jackson, 1935.
• with David Talbot Rice, The Icons of Cyprus, G. Allen & Unwin, 1937.
• with David Talbot Rice, Icons and their Dating: a Comprehensive Study of their Chronology and Provenance, London: Thames and Hudson, 1974.
• The Scythians, New York: F.A. Praeger, 1957.
• Icons, London: Batchworth Press, 1959.
• The Seljuks in Asia Minor, New York: Praeger, 1961.
• A Concise History of Russian Art, New York: Praeger, 1963.
• Ancient Arts of Central Asia, New York: Praeger, 1965.
• Everyday Life in Byzantium, 1967.
• with David Talbot Rice, Icons: the Natasha Allen Collection, Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 1968.
• Czars and Czarinas of Russia, New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1968.

[source: https--monoskop.org/Tamara_Talbot_Rice]