Book contents
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Part III Culture
- Chapter 13 Philosophy
- Chapter 14 Religion
- Chapter 15 Science
- Chapter 16 Medicine and the Mind-Body Problem
- Chapter 17 The Arts
- Chapter 18 Fin de Siècle
- Chapter 19 The Harm That Good Ideas Do
- Chapter 20 Chekhov’s Intelligentsias
- Part IV Literature
- Part V Afterlives
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 17 - The Arts
from Part III - Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2023
- Chekhov in Context
- Chekhov in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note on Texts, Dates, and Transliteration
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Life
- Part II Society
- Part III Culture
- Chapter 13 Philosophy
- Chapter 14 Religion
- Chapter 15 Science
- Chapter 16 Medicine and the Mind-Body Problem
- Chapter 17 The Arts
- Chapter 18 Fin de Siècle
- Chapter 19 The Harm That Good Ideas Do
- Chapter 20 Chekhov’s Intelligentsias
- Part IV Literature
- Part V Afterlives
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Serge Gregory surveys Chekhov’s artistic education, his time working the Moscow art beat as a cultural critic, reviewing operas and exhibits, and enjoying the inside scoop on these worlds thanks in part to his older brother Nikolai, an accomplished painter. Gregory demonstrates how Chekhov’s literary impressionism was formed by parallel movements in the arts, especially by his friendship with Isaac Levitan, whose painterly approach to mood was decisive for Chekhov’s own fictional landscapes.
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- Chekhov in Context , pp. 133 - 139Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023