A new collection featuring images of rare and/or previously unpublished
Russian works of art is now available online via AHDS Visual Arts.

Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 contains over 300
images and primary texts from the nineteenth and early twentieth century - a
period of immense activity in all aspects of the Russian visual arts.

Highlights of the collection include a selection of texts written between
1814 and 1909. The texts cover the emergence of Russian art criticism as a
distinct genre of writing at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the
early manifestations of modernism. A number of essential sources are
translated into English for the first time and feature the work of major
writers on art and the nature of discussions on contemporary art in Russia.
The texts are complemented by images taken from contemporaneous publications
(such as lavishly-illustrated art journals, newspapers and pamphlets) which
contribute to the ambience in which the texts were produced.

Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 is the result of a
three year project entitled Russian Visual Arts: Documents from the British
Library Collection which took place between the years 2000-2003. The project
was established jointly by the Department of Russian at the University of
Exeter and the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University
of Sheffield.

AHDS Visual Arts now has over 32,000 images dedicated to research, learning
and teaching.

View Russian Visual Arts: Art Criticism in Context, 1814-1909 and all of our
other collections at http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk.