Olga S Davydova
Biographic Data
| ID | 8883626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga S Davydova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga S |
| FAMILY NAME | Davydova |
| SIGNATURE | DAVYDOVA O S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian Academy of Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6834-3291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Requiem. Mikhail Vrubel’s Last Watercolor. On the 170th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
The article is dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856–1910), an outstanding Russian artist of the Art Nouveau era and the leader of Russian Symbolism. The main subject of the study is a graphic sheet from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), inv. ERR-5058, with the official title Composition Without a Topic and the general date of creation ‘Early 20th Century’. This composit…
The Dynamics of Studying Symbolism
The focus of the essay is on the scholarly tendencies which impacted the art historical study of Symbolism. Based on the unique practice and experience of the Russian specialists working under the aegis of the inter-institutional collective “European Symbolism and the Style Moderne”, “A Bibliographical Index: ‘Symbolism in the Visual Arts from the mid-19th to the First Decades of the 20th Century’” was completed in 2019. This was the first endeav…
The “Precepts” of Orpheus
The article undertakes a multidimensional philosophical and aesthetic analysis of symbolist artists' perception of Antiquity through the prism of visual myth-making, archaic in its inner nature. The legendary time of the poetic covenants of Orpheus before the ancient Greek classics, as well as the period of Homer's archaicism, are seen as metaphorical coordinates to separate true historical Antiquity from those images in which the modern age has …
Mikhail Vrubel in Search of the “Stylishly Beautiful”. The Biographical Aspect
The article is a conceptual exploration of the life and creative path of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) in the context of the individual characteristics of his personality. The relevance of this study is determined by the need to find new conceptual angles in the field of understanding the idealistic component of M.A. Vrubel's work, i.e. in the field of his iconographic poetics. The visual myth-making of the artist, who drew on authent…
Between Truth and Fiction
The article brings forward the analytics of documentary representation strategies used by Chris Marker in his nonfiction films. The cinematographic work of a famous French director is explored in its connection with the overall process of evolution of nonfiction films. Based on the transformation of the very idea of veracity, Marker’s cinema is described and analyzed as a radical way to overcome the politics of documentary representation expresse…
Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics (on the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics)
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Between Truth and Fiction
The article brings forward the analytics of documentary representation strategies used by Chris Marker in his nonfiction films. The cinematographic work of a famous French director is explored in its connection with the overall process of evolution of nonfiction films. Based on the transformation of the very idea of veracity, Marker’s cinema is described and analyzed as a radical way to overcome the politics of documentary representation expresse…
Possible Worlds of Contemporary Aesthetics (on the 21st International Congress of Aesthetics)
The Dynamics of Studying Symbolism
The focus of the essay is on the scholarly tendencies which impacted the art historical study of Symbolism. Based on the unique practice and experience of the Russian specialists working under the aegis of the inter-institutional collective “European Symbolism and the Style Moderne”, “A Bibliographical Index: ‘Symbolism in the Visual Arts from the mid-19th to the First Decades of the 20th Century’” was completed in 2019. This was the first endeav…
The “Precepts” of Orpheus
The article undertakes a multidimensional philosophical and aesthetic analysis of symbolist artists' perception of Antiquity through the prism of visual myth-making, archaic in its inner nature. The legendary time of the poetic covenants of Orpheus before the ancient Greek classics, as well as the period of Homer's archaicism, are seen as metaphorical coordinates to separate true historical Antiquity from those images in which the modern age has …
Mikhail Vrubel in Search of the “Stylishly Beautiful”. The Biographical Aspect
The article is a conceptual exploration of the life and creative path of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) in the context of the individual characteristics of his personality. The relevance of this study is determined by the need to find new conceptual angles in the field of understanding the idealistic component of M.A. Vrubel's work, i.e. in the field of his iconographic poetics. The visual myth-making of the artist, who drew on authent…
Requiem. Mikhail Vrubel’s Last Watercolor. On the 170th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
The article is dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856–1910), an outstanding Russian artist of the Art Nouveau era and the leader of Russian Symbolism. The main subject of the study is a graphic sheet from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), inv. ERR-5058, with the official title Composition Without a Topic and the general date of creation ‘Early 20th Century’. This composit…
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