Transformed by Emigration. Welcoming Russian Intellectuals, Scientists and Artists (1917?1945)

Paperback, 146 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:72 col., Language: English. ISBN 9788021097094. Summary The thematic framework of this special issue is an examination of the impact Russian émigrés had on the humanities and art. From art history to philosophy, artistic creation to ecumenical dialogue, the volume is dedicated to figures who, through their emigration from Russia, transformed their places of arrival and relevant fields. The articles in the volume assess these topics from an interdisciplinary point of view, extending the usual horizons of Convivium to other fields as well. The volume was published as the proceedings of the conference Transformed by Emigration. Welcoming Russian Intellectuals, Scientists, and Artists 1917-1945 held at the Hans Belting Library in February 2019. TABLE OF CONTENTS Ivan Foletti After Kondakov. The Heritage of Russian Emigration in the Czech Lands Articles Ekaterina Shashlova Russian Philosophers in France in the Interwar Period. A Review of the Studies of Emigrant Philosophers Juliette Milbach Zinaida Serebrjakova in Paris. Iconographic Analysis of a Russian in Exile Karolina Foletti Presenting Russia to the West. Helene Iswolsky, Russian Catholic Émigré Intellectual Cécile Pichon-Bonin The Russian Illustrators of the Père Castor. Russian Mediators in France of the Concept of Construction in Art and Pedagogy in the 1930s Jordan Ljuckanov The Russian Émigré Community in Interwar Bulgaria. Attempt at a Typology of Transformations, with Focus on the "Aestheticization" of Newspaper Adrien Palladino Transforming Medieval Art from Saint Petersburg to Paris. André Grabar's Life and Scholarship between 1917 and 1945 0 g.…