Presented by Hanna Chuchvaha

This presentation will explain how the modernist art periodicals, World of Art (Mir

Iskusstva, 1899-1904), The Golden Fleece (Zolotoe runo, 1906-1909) and Apollo

(Apollon, 1909-1917), the symbols of the print revival in late Imperial Russia,

altered the understanding of periodical culture, influenced graphic design and

established the conception of ideal book with words and images in the centre of

book and periodical production. In exploring journals as art objects, this

presentation engages Gérard Genette’s notion of “paratext”, which serves as an

umbrella approach to the explanation of the material dimension of the periodicals

analyzed as complex artifacts that combine text and image, which together affect

meaning.