Skip to Main Content

Art Resources for Blaffer Art Museum Exhibits

Guide to Blaffer Art Museum Exhibits

History

The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 

Catherine the Great: portrait of a woman / Robert K. Massie

Peter the Great, his life and world / Robert K. Massie

Peter the Great Transforms Russia / James Cracraft

Chasing the sea: lost among the ghosts of empire in Central Asia / Tom Bissel

The icon and the axe; an interpretive history of Russian culture / by James H. Billington

Artist Monographs & Writings

Natural History & Ecology


Arctic dreams : imaginations and desire in a Northern landscape/ Barry Lopez

The Devil and the Disappearing Sea: A True Story About the Aral Sea Catastrophe / Rob Ferguson

Under the sea-wind; a naturalist's picture of ocean life / Rachel Carson

Literature

A hero of our time / Mikhail Lermontove

Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky

Passage to Juneau: a sea and its meanings / Jonathan Raban

Petersburg: a novel in eight chapters with a prologue and an epilogue / Andrei Bely

 

Philosophy

The secret doctrine / H. P. Blavatsky

Wanderlust: a history of walking / Rebecca Solnit

Under suspicion : a phenomenology of the media / Rebecca Solnit

Introduction to antiphilosophy/ Boris Groys

Art power/ Boris Groys