Shilova, N ART AND ARTISTS IN LITERARY REPRESENTATION OF KIZHI ISLAND // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.209


Literary studies

ART AND ARTISTS IN LITERARY REPRESENTATION OF KIZHI ISLAND

Shilova
N.L. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
island
Kizhi
art
architecture
intermedial theory
space and place
literary geography
Chruschev thaw		 Summary: The purpose of the article is to analyze the layer of references to the fine arts in literary texts about Kizhi Island, which was not previously considered in the studies on the representation of the island. In prose and poetry about Kizhi from the late 1950s, such references appeared regularly. Among the main types (nominations and images of artists, ekfrasis) a group of images and nominations of artists, fictional and real is examined in detail . Their appearance in the works about the island is due to its cultural history, which formed a special landscape focused on the Kizhi Pogost, a recognized masterpiece of architecture, as well as some features of the "thaw" period, when many bright works about Kizhi were written and published. Artists appear in the Kizhi plots as characters (from the protagonist to the episodic persons), often have a special status, intermediate between the indigenous islanders and tourists. Along with the conventional figures in this material there are the names of painters, who really existed - Kuindzhi, Van Gogh, Goya, Gauguin, Rockwell Kent. The reasons for the appearance of these names and their intermedial functions in the texts about the island are considered in the article. Material for the study are I. Mazuruk's, E. Nosova's, Yu Kazakova's, In Pulkina's, A. Voznesensky's texts, memoir sources. The analysis allows us to recognize that the images associated with artists and fine art are an original feature in the literary representation of the island, giving it (along with the sacred meaning of Kizhi temples) the character of a place that concentrates exceptional visual possibilities and non-utilitarian meanings.



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