{Russian Art at the Turn of the Century}[8th April 1991]

[Redbook9:47][19910408:0045]{Russian Art at the Turn of the Century}[8th April 1991]

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‘Perhaps the most decisive break [by Russian artists at the turn of the century]* with the nineteenth-century Realist tradition lay in **|the rejection of the explicit in favour of the allusive, the flight from concrete reality into imagination and fantasy, dreams and even nightmares. The artists celebrated artifice and illusion, epitomised in works for and about the theatre. They loved masks and disguise, and they wallowed in the bygone.|**’

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/	J~	1896	\
64|	G~	1904	|	**||**
\	R~	1912	/

I might have expected this at R~ rather than J~-G~. Perhaps the late stage of the 2048[-year] cycle (2048R~C1920) advances the onset of R~C symptoms.

***T[imes] L[iterary] S[upplement] 4590, 19910322:16, ‘Wallowing in the bygone: Treasures from Russia’s Silver Age’, L. Hughes (reviewing ‘The Twilight of the Tsars: Russian art at the turn of the century’, Exhibition at Hayward Gallery [London].

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