Mondry, Henrietta2022-10-282022-10-282022Mondry H (2022). Physical and metaphysical visualities: Vasily Rozanov and historical artefacts. Arts. 11(70). 1-11.https://hdl.handle.net/10092/104647In Russian modernism, the work of writer Vasily Rozanov (1856–1919) presents an un derstudied case of constructing a worldview based on the study of the parallel history of human physicality and artefacts, which he articulated within the framework of the physical and metaphysical. I argue that Rozanov widened the domain of what was viewed as “compelling visuality” at his time, in line with the subjective synthesising principles of his worldview. He looked in art for the manifestations of that which he considered to be eternal and trans-historical: the mystery of the metaphysical roots of human sexuality.enCopyright: © 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).Russian modernismart historical hermeneuticscompelling visualitiesembodied sexualitiesJournal Article2022-07-06Fields of Research::47 - Language, communication and culture::4705 - Literary studies::470505 - Central and Eastern European literature (incl. Russian)http://doi.org/10.3390/arts11040070