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Brumfield, William Craft was born on June 28, 1944 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Lewis F. and Pauline Elizabeth (Craft) Brumfield.
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The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the search by architects and critics for a "unifying idea" that would define a new architecture. Generously illustrated with archival materials and with the author's own superb photographs, this is the first comprehensive study by a Western scholar of a neglected period in European architectural and cultural history. Brumfield explores the diverse styles of Russian modernism in part by analyzing the contemporary theoretical debate about them: the relation between technology and style, the obligation of architecture to society, and the role of architecture as an expression of national identity. Steeped in controversy, Russian modernism at the beginning of the century foreshadowed the radical restructuring of architectural form in the Soviet Union during the two decades after the revolution. This authoritative work provides a new understanding of Russian architecture's last brief entrepreneurial episode and offers insight on our own era, when individual freedom and initiative may once again find expression in Russian architecture.
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A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.
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Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author, available in June 2015 The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human endurance. The results of this assault on Russian culture are particularly evident in ruined architectural monuments, some of which are little known even within Russia itself. Over the past four decades William Craft Brumfield, noted historian and photographer of Russian architecture, has traveled throughout Russia and photographed many of these neglected, lost buildings, poignant and haunting in their ruin. Lost Russia provides a unique view of Brumfield’s acclaimed work, which illuminates Russian culture as reflected in these remnants of its distinctive architectural traditions. Capturing the quiet, ineffable beauty that graces these buildings, these photographs are accompanied by a text that provides not only a brief historical background for Russian architecture, but also Brumfield’s personal impressions, thoughts, and insights on the structures he views. Churches and monasteries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century as well as abandoned, ruined manor houses are shown—ravaged by time, willful neglect, and cultural vandalism. Brumfield also illustrates examples of recent local initiatives to preserve cultural landmarks from steady decline and destruction. Concluding with photographs of the remarkable log architecture found in Russia’s far north, Lost Russia is a book for all those concerned with the nation’s cultural legacy, history, and architecture, and with historic and cultural preservation generally. It will also interest those who appreciate the fine art of exceptional photography.
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Another wonderful book by Professor William Brumfield. In this volume, he examines and documents in 218 photos both black/white and color, the architectural history and legacy of Veliki Ustiug, located in Vologda province.
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Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russian Architecture has remained the most comprehensive study of the topic in English, a volume that defines the main components and sources for Russia’s architectural traditions in their historical context, from the early medieval period to the present. This edition includes 80 new full-page color separations, many of which are published here for the first time, as well as a new Prologue and elegant photographic essay drawn from the author’s research and fieldwork over the past decade in remote areas of the Russian north and Siberia. Subject to influences from east and west, Russian architecture’s distinctive approaches to building are documented in four parts of this definitive study: early medieval Rus up to the Mongol invasion in the mid-twelfth century; the revival of architecture in Novgorod and Muscovy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries; Peter the Great’s cultural revolution, which extended through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; and the advent of modern, avant-garde, and monumental Soviet architecture. Beautifully illustrated and carefully researched, A History of Russian Architecture provides an invaluable cultural history that will be of interest to scholars and general audiences alike. View the William C. Brumfield Russian Architecture Collection online at http://depts.washington.edu/ceir/brumfield
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Photographer Slavic studies educator writer
Brumfield, William Craft was born on June 28, 1944 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Lewis F. and Pauline Elizabeth (Craft) Brumfield.
Bachelor, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic languages, University California, Berkeley, 1973.
Visiting lecturer University Wisconsin, Madison, 1973-1974. Assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974-1980. Associate professor Tulane University, New Orleans, 1984-1991, professor Slavic languages, since 1992.
Resident director American Council Teachers Russian Pushkin Institute Program, Moscow, 1979—1980. Co-director Summer Institute College Faculty, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1994. Advisory director Russian Children's Welfare Society.
Lecturer architecture, photography and literature museum universities throughout United States and Europe.
(Since its initial publication in 1993, A History of Russi...)
( Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by th...)
( The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture fro...)
( A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this vol...)
(Another wonderful book by Professor William Brumfield. In...)
(Hard cover with dust jacket. Great book on historic Russi...)
(First Edition)
Fellow: Russian Academy Architecture and Construction Science, Russian Academy Art. Member: Society Historians E. European and Russian Art and Architecture, American Council Teachers Russian, Institute Modern Russian Culture (head photography section), Society Architectural Historians, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies, Phi Beta Kappa.
