"Our Native Antiquity"

¿`Our Native Antiquity¿: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the
Culture of Russian Modernism is one of those works whose theme seems to lie in plain view, but, until
the appearance of this study, remained unnoticed¿ It introduces essential
correctives to the history of national-cultural self-consciousness¿. the
author¿s achievement is outstanding. [It] allows one to present modernism not
only as a revolution of ideas and aesthetic tastes, but as a transformation of
the symbolic `habitat,¿ with an entire gamut of new sensations accompanying
this radical restructuring of the cultural ecology.¿ ¿Boris Gasparov, Ab
Imperio