Yakutia in Visual Sources of the 18-19th Centuries: A Brief Overview

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10.2991/assehr.k.210225.023How to use a DOI?

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art practices, intellectual landscape, visual research, north territories

Abstract

The study of visual sources of the 18 - 19th centuries, outside of the dominant discourse of art criticism, it makes us think about the organized nature of the formation of illustrative materials in all areas of scientific disciplines, which went along with the process of forming large centers of historical memory (libraries, archives, museums) in the country. The creative heritage of expedition artists and photographers who took part in the study of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia in the period under study is considered from the standpoint of the intellectual culture of the era, as the result of a huge work carried out by individual enthusiasts, research societies and public institutions of historical memory of Russia. During the development of new Northern territories and the assessment of its colonization capacity, Russian ethnographic science tested the tools of visual methods of research of traditional everyday life, while simultaneously forming a corpus of clothing and visual sources, subsequently replicated in “pictorial albums”1, opening the world community to the population of the Russian Empire. The first experiments of drawing fixation of traditional culture made during the expeditions of the Russian Academy of Sciences helped to construct the image of the new Russia. In the 19th century, with the advent of technical capabilities of photography, the advanced scientific community began to form already photographic visual images of the country’s population. Today, these meta-archives of digitized historical memory are experiencing a real Renaissance, as anthropological resources on the basis of which many lost elements of the traditional culture of the past are reconstructed. The study of the results of the work of artists and photographers, as part of the Russian intellectual community, who conducted scientific research and searches in various genres of artistic practices is conducted for the first time.

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AU  - Lena Borisovna Stepanova
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