{"title":"Lina Bernstein","description":"Dr. Lina Bernstein taught Russian and comparative literature at Franklin \u0026amp; Marshall College. She is the author of Gogol's Last Book and numerous articles on Russian art, literature, and culture. She recently curated an online exhibit on Magda Nachman for Moscow's State Museum of Oriental Cultures and is preparing a Russian-language version of Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile.","products":[{"product_id":"magda-nachman-an-artist-in-exile-paperback","title":"Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An epic tale of Bernstein's passionate search for Magda Nachman, an artist whose life was an achievement on the order of her marvelous painting. Biography at its finest, \u003ci\u003eMagda Nachman: An Artist in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e draws the reader along on a gripping and rewarding saga that takes the teller from Russia to Berlin to London to Bombay, to find an artist who persevered in her art despite almost insurmountable odds...\" -- Mary V. Dearborn, author of \u003ci\u003eHemingway: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist\/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the hardships of émigré Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51257685672159,"sku":"9781644692684","price":31.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mSJgvKRcKt9781644692684.webp?v=1787550735"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lina-bernstein.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}