St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2013. pb. 159 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
Kyiv: Pinchuk Art Center. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a gallery exhibition in Kyiv shows photographs in which the photographer captures a glimpse of incongruous or humorous everyday life. 118 P., 24 x 34 cm, approx. 60 color illus., ENGLISH. More
2018. Pb. From portrait miniatures to St. Petersburg cityscapes, the articles published in this number of the Hermitage journal reflect the interests of the museum’s late curator G. M. Komelova in Russian art of the imperial period. 475 p., approx. 70 b/w, 20 color illus., Rus. with title page, table..... More
St. Petersburg: Solo SFK, 2008. Sewn Cloth. Beginning his career in the mid 1930s, Muratov became an expert draftsman, a core member of the group of Leningrad artists who were creating a strong body of graphic art for such publishers as the renowned Detgiz (State Children's Publisher). Especially vivid are..... More
Moscow: Sovpadenie, 2006. sewn pb. In the early eighteenth century Peter the Great wrenched Russian culture westward, which was especially evident in architecture (steepled churches replaced onion-domed ones, for example). Nevertheless, Russian building traditions did not cease to interest and attract architects. As the achievements of medieval architecture began to..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2012. sewn cl. Three main chapters deal with the different manifestations of artistic expression in the early Russian confederation centered around Kyiv: architecture, painting, and ornament of various kinds (e.g., manuscripts, metalwork, reliefs). The experience of recent decades broadened scholarly methods and led to the adoption of..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2014. pb. The introduction to this catalogue of a gallery exhibition shows how Shvarts learned resourcefully from taboo art in the West to develop into an original artist of the late Soviet period. In his student years right after World War II, Shvarts became friends with Aleksandr Aref'ev. After..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2014. Sewn cl. The Museum of the Moscow Kremlin owns a lavish manuscript of the seventeenth century — the coronation album of the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, which chronicles in elegant miniatures and Slavic calligraphy the beginning of a dynasty in 1613 that would..... More
Novgorod: Novgorodskii muz, 2012. This book looks at the art historical, political, and sociological aspects of a church a church built in the neo-Russian style in the last years of the Russian Empire. Early chapters cover its design, construction and decoration. Then the authors deal with the political theme of..... More
Moscow: Masterskaia / Shrift, 2014. Sewn pb. This study of two predominant type styles of the 1920s considers both of them revolutionary, points out that both were superseded in the 1930s after the romance of the revolutionary period was over by a homogenized style. The style based on the work..... More
Moscow: Kontakt-kul'tura, 2007. Sewn pb. Published here are examples of covers from the most creative period of Soviet-Russian design — 1920s and early 30s. Some of the covers are by the most famous artists of the period such as El Lisitskii, Solomon Telingater, Alexander Rodchenko, and Liubov Popova; these together..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga. Sewn pb. 134 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of color plates, 26 cm, Rus. More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2015. Sewn pb. The artist whose works are published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the State Museum of the Orient (Moscow) was a major figure in the artistic movement of the late Soviet period known as Moscow Conceptualism and has continued in the post-Soviet period..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Slavia, 2013. Sewn cl. This selection of works from the Hermitage comprises textiles, applied and decorative arts, furniture, arms and armor and paintings. Seventy-four works are catalogued, and each department of the Hermitage’s collection of Spanish art is outlined. 106 pp., 9 x 8 ins., approx..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. Blocks of color, hints at architectural or human forms, and rich deep colors characterize the paintings in this catalogue of an exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. Most works date to the first decade of the twenty-first century. 32 p, approx. 30 color illus...... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2017. Sewn cl. The lubok or popular print in Russia can stimulate art historical insights from several points of view: its naive imagery has the raw strength of primitive art; it served as a vital source for Russian avant-garde artists; and its free interpretation of..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2014. sewn pb. The author gives a general chronological servey of porcelain production in Russia from the second half of the eighteenth century and then examines some of the most significant producers such as Nikolai Iusupov in the early nineteenth century, the Kornilov Brothers in the mid..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2014. sewn cl. Works — mostly paintings and drawings, but some porcelain — from the 1790s to the 1880s are published in this edition of the Russian Museum's series Faces of Russia. Works by Zichy show court life; those of Sadovnikov give us a glimpse into..... More
? ArtKhronika, 2004. pb. Articles by historians of art and artists are profusely illustrated and chronicle a rich period of ferment and protest in the late Soviet era as artists began to take more chances. Among the artists who are the subjects of articles are Erik Bulatov, Komar and Melamid..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn cl. An exhaustive catalogue of the Hermitage collections is an event in museology and art history; for example, the volumes on Dutch painting, the first two of which came out at the end of 2017, mark the first time the collection has been catalogued in..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2011. Sewn pb. The Shchusev Museum of Architecture has a unique collection of paintings and drawings done by students of the Moscow school VKhUTEMAS (Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops, Vyshie khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskie materskie) renowned as a cradle of the avant-garde. The experimental work done during the 1920s by..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva, 2018. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture in Moscow publishes design drawings by Aleksei Shchusev, a Russian architect whose career overlapped several styles of European and Russian architecture (art nouveau, Russian revival and Stalinist empire) but whose own work is distinguished for..... More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Andrei Rublev Medieval Russian Art and Culture Museum publishes a recently restored monument of European book art: a mid eighteenth-century Bible engraved by the German artist Martin Engelbrecht. The theme of the research published..... More
2001. Pb. This handbook covers Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and twelve other sites in Europe and Asia, logging facts on construction, closing in the Soviet period, recent openings, and restorations. 464 pp., 110 b-&-w illus.,Rus. More
Moscow: Muzei drevnerusskogo iskusstva im. Rubleva, 2013. sewn cl. This volume in the Rublev Museum's series publishes research into Byzantine icons and monumental art in the Rublev Museum and in other collections around Russia. Subjects of chapters include Origins of Christian Iconography; Monastic Art in 12th-c. Byzantium and Rus'; The..... More