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Shulgina O. Sketches and Watercolour Paintings of Aleksander Gorbunkov as an Object of Visual Anthropology (on the Collection of the State Central Film Museum)

Olga Shulgina
Saint Petersburg State University,
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
ORCID: 0000-0002-5449-0258
shulgina@kunstkamera.ru

 

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ABSTRACT. The article considers a series of drawings made by Russian painer, graphic artist and art historian Aleksander Gorbunkov in 1947–1948. These sketches have ethnographic character and provide a quite accurate depiction of Chukchi dwellings, household constructions, clothing, transport, religious objects and household items of the first third of the 20th century. The collection of sketches and watercolours painted by Gorbunkov has not yet been introduced to the scientific community. However, it is of undoubted interest. First of all, it is due to the fact that the 1930s were the time of tectonic social and cultural changes, which influenced various aspects of material culture of the indigenous people in Chukotka. The works of Gorbunkov can serve as a source for the study of the period when “alien” pan-European elements were being actively incorporated into the traditional patterns of Chukchi and Asian Eskimo material culture. This, in turn, contributed to the selection of certain forms by the indigenous inhabitants, which is reflected in the artist’s sketches.

 

KEYWORDS: A. L. Gorbunkov, visual anthropology, development of Chukotka, architectural designs, sketches and watercolour paintings of clothing, sketches of requisites

 

FOR CITATION: Shulgina O. Sketches and Watercolour Paintings of Aleksander Gorbunkov as an Object of Visual Anthropology (on the collection of the State Central Film Museum). Kunstkamera. 2023. 1(19): 87–102. (In Russian). doi 10.31250/2618-8619-2023-1(19)-87-102

   

DOI 10.31250/2618-8619-2023-1(19)-87-102
УДК 304.44

 

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