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Cover by Evgeny Lanceray for Prospectus of the Magazine, 1901. <\/em><\/p>\n Previous posts here have concerned fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> art magazines like The Savoy<\/a><\/em>, Pan<\/a><\/em> and Jugend<\/a><\/em>; yesterday we had Sergei Diaghilev so it seems fitting to mention Diaghilev’s own magazine, Mir Iskusstva<\/em> (World of Art<\/em>), founded in 1899 with similar intentions to the European magazines which were highlighting developments in art beyond the academic sphere. Mir Iskusstva was also the name of the Russian art group who used the magazine as their forum, and a number of the artists involved in the movement, notably L\u00e9on Bakst, Ivan Bilibin and Nicholas Roerich, went on to work for Diaghilev at the Ballets Russes.<\/p>\n Cover by L\u00e9on Bakst for Mir iskusstva #8 (1902).<\/em><\/p>\n I find this later development especially fascinating since it positions the magazine as a precursor to the groundbreaking works which followed rather than being\u2014as so many periodicals were and still are\u2014a publication which had its moment of glory then faded from view. Of the works shown here, Vrubel’s Symbolist Demon<\/em>, one of several painted by the artist, was featured in a 1903 edition of the magazine, whilst the Bakst painting, depicting the destruction of Atlantis, shows a Symbolist side to an artist who later became far better known for his Ballets Russes costume designs.<\/p>\n Demon (1902) by Mikhail Vrubel.<\/em><\/p>\n Unlike the other magazines mentioned above, I’ve yet to come across a cache of whole editions of Mir Iskusstva<\/em> (and I’m still waiting for Ver Sacrum<\/em> to turn up somewhere). This page<\/a> has an overview of the Russian art movement and its journal, while this page<\/a> has a selection of works by the artists involved. For more of Vrubel’s work, Wikimedia Commons<\/a> has the best collection of the artist’s paintings and sculpture.<\/p>\n Terror Antiquus (1908) by L\u00e9on Bakst.<\/em><\/p>\n Previously on { feuilleton } Cover by Evgeny Lanceray for Prospectus of the Magazine, 1901. 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<\/p>\n![\"vrubel.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/vrubel.jpg\")
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\n\u2022 Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes<\/a>
\n\u2022 Pamela Colman Smith\u2019s Russian Ballet<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Ivan Bilibin, 1876\u20131942<\/a>
\n\u2022 Magic carpet ride<\/a>
\n\u2022 Le Sacre du Printemps<\/a>
\n\u2022 Images of Nijinsky<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"