Lev Bakst, portret khudozhnika v obraze evreia - Medvedkova

How to write a biography of an artist who has left many texts, knowingly forming his posthumous image? How true is this image? Olga Medvedkova offers to look at the personality and life of Leo Bakst from the point of view of microhistory and for the first time reconstructs his intellectual biography, based on archival sources and ego documents. The subject of her research is the gap between reality and dream, facts and the story of them, where the artist's identity is manifested in all its complexity. Key to understanding Bakst's myth about himself is the Jewish theme, inextricably linked with the theme of reference to the ancient Greek archaic and the idea of the new Renaissance. Olga Medvedkova is a historian of art and architecture, Ph.D., senior researcher of the National Center for Scientific Research of France, author of books and articles on the history of European architecture of the New Age and the problems of Russian art.