William Craft Brumfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 521214 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Craft Brumfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Craft |
| FAMILY NAME | Brumfield |
| SIGNATURE | BRUMFIELD W C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Transition and Ideology in Russian Estate Churches during the Late Seventeenth Century
The transformation in Russian society and culture at the end of the seventeenth century – and the premonition of more radical changes to come – led to new church forms sponsored by some of Russia’s most powerful and wealthy families as an expression of changing cultural identity. The ensuing style is often designated the “Naryshkin Baroque,” after the boiar family (related to the second wife of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, father of Peter I ) that …
Confrontation in Idyllia
The Latin phrase “Et in Arcadia ego” has been interpreted as referring both to the presence of man in an idyllic place and to the presence of death in that same space. The article applies this ambiguous treatment to the Russian country estate as a place of moral conflict in the novel Hard Times by V. A. Sleptsov and I. S. Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. Their interpretation requires an understanding of both the setting of the estate within the natur…
The Russian-Jewish Tradition
Brian Horowitz, the well-known scholar of Russian Jewry, argues that Jews were not a people apart but were culturally integrated in Russian society. The book lets us grasp the meaning of secular Judaism and gives models from the past in order to stimulate ideas for the present.
The Trinity-Danilov Monastery
The mid-seventeenth-century frescoes at the Trinity Cathedral, Trinity Danilov Monastery in Pereslavl-Zalesskii, are among the major works of late medieval Russian monumental art. Of special interest is the cycle portraying elements from the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation. Painted at a time of great turbulence in the Russian Church and in Russian society, these frescoes join other cycles of the period in depicting a general cataclysm
Monuments of Church Architecture in Belozersk
The history of the community associated with the White Lake (Beloe Ozero) is a rich one. This article covers a brief overview of the developing community from medieval through modern times, and then focuses the majority of its attention on the church architecture of Belozersk. This rich tradition of material culture increases our knowledge about medieval and early modern Rus’ and Russia
The Neoclassical Revival in the Architecture of St. Petersburg/Petrograd
After 1905 a reaction against the modernist movement in architecture appeared in the work of architects and critics who supported a revival of Neoclassicism in Russian architecture. Although the new classicism provided the means to apply technological and design innovations within an established tectonic system, it was also widely interpreted as a rejection of the unstable values of individualism and the bourgeois ethos. Neoclassical architecture…
Tara and Omsk
The Omsk region has played a major role in the development of Siberia. The article examines the region’s architectural heritage in its historical context, beginning with the small town of Tara, founded at the end of the sixteenth century. The main part of the article focuses on the prerevolutionary architecture of Omsk from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The analysis includes churches, houses, commercial and civic buildings…
Gateway to Siberia
The article consists of an analytical survey of the architectural monuments of Ekaterinburg, together with the historic towns of Verkhoturye and Nevyansk. In Vekhoturye the article focuses on the first half of the 18th century and the Trinity Cathedral in particular, but attention is also devoted to the Monastery of St. Nicholas and its Cathedral of the Elevation of the Cross, a major work of early 20th-century Russian church architecture. The ma…
Style Moderne and the Rediscovery of the Wooden Architecture of the Russian North
The pre-Petrine “backwardness” of Russia’s wooden architecture would become a point of interest in \nthe nineteenth century, as Russian intellectuals and artists began to search for origins, antecedents and \nauthenticity in the native culture. Engravings of traditional structures began to be widely distributed \nand published. Among the first artists to define the wooden vernacular as a stylistic inspiration were \nViktor Hartmann and Ivan Ropet…
New Directions in Russian Orthodox Church Architecture at the beginning of the Twentieth Century
At the beginning of the 20th century certain influential voices in Russian architecture began to question \nthe highly ornamental approach to church design that had reigned during the latter half of the 19th \ncentury. In the opinion of these architect-critics, the so-called Ostankinshchina style (named after \nthe late 17th-century Church of the Trinity at Ostankino) seemed to deform the aesthetic purity of \nmedieval Russian church architecture…
The Creation of the Sixteenth-century Architectural Ensemble at the Solovetskii-Transfiguration Monastery
This article examines the major sixteenth-century architectural monuments of Solovetskii \nTransfiguration Monastery, with particular emphasis on the Preobrazhenskii sobor. Through the impetus provided by an exceptionally gifted and dynamic hegumen, Filipp, the monastery was able during the latter half of the sixteenth century to acquire the technical and physical resources necessary to initiate major building projects. The origins of this extrao…
Eastern Motifs in the Ornamentation of Eighteenth-Century Siberian Church Architecture
Russia’s engagement with Asian peoples and cultures forms a topic whose boundaries have yet to be \nthoroughly explored, particularly in the relationship between Russian and Asian architecture. As an \nartifact demanding significant resources as well as building skills, architecture involves numerous \nfactors related to social, cultural, economic and technological history. The present article will point \nto specific instances, primarily in eigh…
Russian Folklore as a Poetics of Inference
The present article examines Russian folklore from the position of dynamic linguistics at the \nintersection of semiotic and discourse theories. Russian folklore is treated as a semiotic code facilitating the unfolding of discourse in time and space, simultaneously ensuring the transmission of cultural and literary traditions and the consolidation of various ethno-social entities. Our analysis of the poetics of inference is conducted on the basis…
From Victor Hugo to Fedor Dostoevskii
The article examines the 19th-century European perception of architecture – and architectural style – \nas an expression of history and culture that can only be fully explicated through a verbal, literary \ntext. This concept was particularly active in discussions of national identity. Architecture was both \nreflective on a national culture and at the same time called upon to further reflect and express that \nculture. On this basis arose critic…
Two Hamlets
The article examines the presentation of the protagonist as alienated radical activist in the novels \nОтцы и дети (Fathers and Sons) and Трудное время (Hard Times). Both Turgenev and Sleptsov \ndraw on ideological and social questions of the day, yet each also creates a protagonist situated within \na literary context. The Romantic hero, particularly as defined by Byron, is the major paradigm for \nTurgenev, while Sleptsov adopts a more skeptica…
Tradition and Innovation in the Sixteenth-Century Architecture of Solovetskii Transfiguration Monastery
Lost Russia
Christianity and the Arts in Russia
Part I. The Art of the Medieval Church: 1. Aural icons of orthodoxy: the sonic typology of Russian bells Edward V. Williams 2. On the links between music and icon painting in medieval Rus Tatiana Vladyshevskaia 3. The role of the devotional image in the religious life of pre-Mongol Rus Natalia Teteriatnikov 4. The Slavic reception of Byzantine chant Kenneth Levy Part II. Christianity and Russian Folk Belief: 5. Piety and pragmatism: Orthodox sain…
A History of Russian Architecture
Russian Housing in the Modern Age
List of plates Acknowledgements Abbreviations and notes on the text The Letters 1872-1903 Bibliography and sources Index
The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
Reshaping Russian Architecture
The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the search by architects and critics for a unifying idea that would define a new architecture. Generously illustrated with archival materials and with the aut…
Reshaping Russian Architecture
Brumfield 1. From Palace Square to Moscow Square: St Petersburg's century-long retreat from public space Blair A. Ruble 2. Russian perceptions of American architecture, 1870-1917 William C. Brumfield 3. Architectural design in Moscow, 1890-1917: innovation and retrospection William C. Brumfield 4. Moscow's revolutionary architecture and its aftermath: a critical guide Blair A. Ruble 5. The realization of Utopia Western technology and Soviet avant…
Gold in Azure. One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture
Two Hamlets
The article examines the presentation of the protagonist as alienated radical activist in the novels \nОтцы и дети (Fathers and Sons) and Трудное время (Hard Times). Both Turgenev and Sleptsov \ndraw on ideological and social questions of the day, yet each also creates a protagonist situated within \na literary context. The Romantic hero, particularly as defined by Byron, is the major paradigm for \nTurgenev, while Sleptsov adopts a more skeptica…
Tradition and Innovation in the Sixteenth-Century Architecture of Solovetskii Transfiguration Monastery
Christianity and the Arts in Russia
Part I. The Art of the Medieval Church: 1. Aural icons of orthodoxy: the sonic typology of Russian bells Edward V. Williams 2. On the links between music and icon painting in medieval Rus Tatiana Vladyshevskaia 3. The role of the devotional image in the religious life of pre-Mongol Rus Natalia Teteriatnikov 4. The Slavic reception of Byzantine chant Kenneth Levy Part II. Christianity and Russian Folk Belief: 5. Piety and pragmatism: Orthodox sain…
The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the search by architects and critics for a unifying idea that would define a new architecture. Generously illustrated with archival materials and with the aut…
Bazarov and Rjazanov
Invitation to a Beheading
All the Empty Palaces
Gold in Azure
Gold in Azure. One Thousand Years of Russian Architecture
Reshaping Russian Architecture
Brumfield 1. From Palace Square to Moscow Square: St Petersburg's century-long retreat from public space Blair A. Ruble 2. Russian perceptions of American architecture, 1870-1917 William C. Brumfield 3. Architectural design in Moscow, 1890-1917: innovation and retrospection William C. Brumfield 4. Moscow's revolutionary architecture and its aftermath: a critical guide Blair A. Ruble 5. The realization of Utopia Western technology and Soviet avant…
The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
Reshaping Russian Architecture
The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the search by architects and critics for a unifying idea that would define a new architecture. Generously illustrated with archival materials and with the aut…
Russian Housing in the Modern Age
List of plates Acknowledgements Abbreviations and notes on the text The Letters 1872-1903 Bibliography and sources Index
Christianity and the Arts in Russia
Part I. The Art of the Medieval Church: 1. Aural icons of orthodoxy: the sonic typology of Russian bells Edward V. Williams 2. On the links between music and icon painting in medieval Rus Tatiana Vladyshevskaia 3. The role of the devotional image in the religious life of pre-Mongol Rus Natalia Teteriatnikov 4. The Slavic reception of Byzantine chant Kenneth Levy Part II. Christianity and Russian Folk Belief: 5. Piety and pragmatism: Orthodox sain…
A History of Russian Architecture
Lost Russia
Tradition and Innovation in the Sixteenth-Century Architecture of Solovetskii Transfiguration Monastery
From Victor Hugo to Fedor Dostoevskii
The article examines the 19th-century European perception of architecture – and architectural style – \nas an expression of history and culture that can only be fully explicated through a verbal, literary \ntext. This concept was particularly active in discussions of national identity. Architecture was both \nreflective on a national culture and at the same time called upon to further reflect and express that \nculture. On this basis arose critic…
Two Hamlets
The article examines the presentation of the protagonist as alienated radical activist in the novels \nОтцы и дети (Fathers and Sons) and Трудное время (Hard Times). Both Turgenev and Sleptsov \ndraw on ideological and social questions of the day, yet each also creates a protagonist situated within \na literary context. The Romantic hero, particularly as defined by Byron, is the major paradigm for \nTurgenev, while Sleptsov adopts a more skeptica…
Style Moderne and the Rediscovery of the Wooden Architecture of the Russian North
The pre-Petrine “backwardness” of Russia’s wooden architecture would become a point of interest in \nthe nineteenth century, as Russian intellectuals and artists began to search for origins, antecedents and \nauthenticity in the native culture. Engravings of traditional structures began to be widely distributed \nand published. Among the first artists to define the wooden vernacular as a stylistic inspiration were \nViktor Hartmann and Ivan Ropet…
New Directions in Russian Orthodox Church Architecture at the beginning of the Twentieth Century
At the beginning of the 20th century certain influential voices in Russian architecture began to question \nthe highly ornamental approach to church design that had reigned during the latter half of the 19th \ncentury. In the opinion of these architect-critics, the so-called Ostankinshchina style (named after \nthe late 17th-century Church of the Trinity at Ostankino) seemed to deform the aesthetic purity of \nmedieval Russian church architecture…
The Creation of the Sixteenth-century Architectural Ensemble at the Solovetskii-Transfiguration Monastery
This article examines the major sixteenth-century architectural monuments of Solovetskii \nTransfiguration Monastery, with particular emphasis on the Preobrazhenskii sobor. Through the impetus provided by an exceptionally gifted and dynamic hegumen, Filipp, the monastery was able during the latter half of the sixteenth century to acquire the technical and physical resources necessary to initiate major building projects. The origins of this extrao…
Eastern Motifs in the Ornamentation of Eighteenth-Century Siberian Church Architecture
Russia’s engagement with Asian peoples and cultures forms a topic whose boundaries have yet to be \nthoroughly explored, particularly in the relationship between Russian and Asian architecture. As an \nartifact demanding significant resources as well as building skills, architecture involves numerous \nfactors related to social, cultural, economic and technological history. The present article will point \nto specific instances, primarily in eigh…
Russian Folklore as a Poetics of Inference
The present article examines Russian folklore from the position of dynamic linguistics at the \nintersection of semiotic and discourse theories. Russian folklore is treated as a semiotic code facilitating the unfolding of discourse in time and space, simultaneously ensuring the transmission of cultural and literary traditions and the consolidation of various ethno-social entities. Our analysis of the poetics of inference is conducted on the basis…
The Trinity-Danilov Monastery
The mid-seventeenth-century frescoes at the Trinity Cathedral, Trinity Danilov Monastery in Pereslavl-Zalesskii, are among the major works of late medieval Russian monumental art. Of special interest is the cycle portraying elements from the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation. Painted at a time of great turbulence in the Russian Church and in Russian society, these frescoes join other cycles of the period in depicting a general cataclysm
Monuments of Church Architecture in Belozersk
The history of the community associated with the White Lake (Beloe Ozero) is a rich one. This article covers a brief overview of the developing community from medieval through modern times, and then focuses the majority of its attention on the church architecture of Belozersk. This rich tradition of material culture increases our knowledge about medieval and early modern Rus’ and Russia
The Neoclassical Revival in the Architecture of St. Petersburg/Petrograd
After 1905 a reaction against the modernist movement in architecture appeared in the work of architects and critics who supported a revival of Neoclassicism in Russian architecture. Although the new classicism provided the means to apply technological and design innovations within an established tectonic system, it was also widely interpreted as a rejection of the unstable values of individualism and the bourgeois ethos. Neoclassical architecture…
Tara and Omsk
The Omsk region has played a major role in the development of Siberia. The article examines the region’s architectural heritage in its historical context, beginning with the small town of Tara, founded at the end of the sixteenth century. The main part of the article focuses on the prerevolutionary architecture of Omsk from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The analysis includes churches, houses, commercial and civic buildings…
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