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Lohengrin

Print
1996 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Novikov (artist)

Timur Novikov founded and led the 'New Academicians' movement that dominated the St Petersburg art scene in the 1990s. In his series 'In the Land of Literary Heroes' from which this print comes, Novikov frames his male aesthetic heroes, historical and fictional, with the 'feminine' decorative trappings of nineteenth-century bourgeois domestic taste: wallpaper, fabric and lace.


Object details

Category
Prints
Object type
Print
Titles
  • Lohengrin (assigned by artist)
  • In the Land of Literary Heroes (series title)
Materials and techniques
Gum arabic print
Paper
Gum Arabic
Printing
Brief description
Lohengrin, from the series 'In the Land of Literary Heroes'. Timur Novikov, 1996.
Dimensions
  • Height: 78.8cm
  • Width: 53.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • (Signed in pencil bottom right)
  • 1996 (Bottom right in pencil)
  • TIMUR NOVIKOV / ST. PETERSBURG / (812) 272-82-22 (Stamped in ink on the back)
Gallery label
Timur Novikov’s New Academicians group looked to Russia’s imperial and totalitarian past for classical ideals of beauty. This print is from the series In the Land of Literary Heroes in which images of Novikov’s male aesthetic heroes are juxtaposed with ‘feminine’ decorative elements such as wallpaper, textiles and embroidery.(22/10/2016)
Credit line
Purchased through the Julie and Robert Breckman Print Fund
Production
Attribution note: unique impression
Subjects depicted
Opera Singer
Ornament
Literary referenceLohengrin
Summary
Timur Novikov founded and led the 'New Academicians' movement that dominated the St Petersburg art scene in the 1990s. In his series 'In the Land of Literary Heroes' from which this print comes, Novikov frames his male aesthetic heroes, historical and fictional, with the 'feminine' decorative trappings of nineteenth-century bourgeois domestic taste: wallpaper, fabric and lace.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2084-2004

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Record createdJuly 15, 2004
Record URL
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