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Valerii Lukka / Valery Lukka
St. Petersburg: Rus muz / Svobodnye khudozhnik S-P, 2013. sewn cl. 239 p., 32 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Rus. with title page and summary in ENGLISH. More
Ekaterina Vorona
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of the an exhibition of the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, the Russian Museum's branch focusing on Russian and Western contemporary art, publishes an artist who, like Wyeth in his seaside paintings, is enthralled by the beauty of water in... More
Do vostrebovaniia: kollektsii russkogo avangarda regional'nykh muzeev / Upon Request: Russian Avant-Garde Collections from Regional Museums
Moscow: Evreiskii muzei, 2016. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow publishes works in different strains of art arising and developing during the first two decades of the twentieth century (ca. 1900–1917), such as neo-impressionism, neo-primitivism, cubo-futurism, abstraction, and suprematism. Unique... More
Istoriia russkogo iskusstva, tom 2.2. Iskusstvo vtoroi poloviny XII veka (History of Russian Art, vol. 2, part 2. Art of the second half of the twelfth century)
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2015. sewn cl. Authors elaborate on the key artistic events of the period: forming an independent local style of building spinning out of Byzantine tradition; designing new forms and kinds of church architecture; diverging of artistic styles in different areas such as Novgorod, Galich, and Vladimir, the... More
Sovershentsvo v detaliakh: iskusstvo Iaponii epokhi Meidzi 1868–1912. Emali, chastnaia kollektsiia, katalog vystavki, tom 3 / Perfection in Details: the Art of Japan in the Meiji Period 1868–1910. Enamels, vol. 3
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2016. Sewn pb. 207 p., 29 cm, approx. 250 color illus., Rus. Or ENGLISH. ISBN for 4-vol. set 9785901528518. More
Neofitsial'noe iskusstvo v SSSR 1950 – 1980-e gody: sbornik po materialam konferentsii 2012 goda (Unofficial art in the USSR, 1950s – 1980s: collection of articles from a 2012 conference)
Buksmart, 2014. pb. The authors deal with several themes: first, the art of the Russian avant-garde and the Stalinist years gave artists after World War II something to build on or react against; methods and difficulties of studying unofficial art; artists in Moscow, Leningrad, and provincial cities and their interactions. 478... More
Arkhangel'skii sobor (Archangel Cathedral)
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2008. Sewn cl. This book focuses on the crowning work of church art and architecture that culminated the grand building program of Ivan III in the early sixteenth century. Using expertly photographed and printed illustrations as visual documents, the authors explain the design, pointing out beautiful details... More
Studio Novaia real'nost' 1958–1991. Transformatsiia soznaniia / The New Reality Studio, 1958–1991: The Transformation of Consciousness
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva. Sewn cl. : , : « « » (1958–1991). «— , , , . « » , , - XX : . , . , . . — , - ... More
Fluxus: Russian Atlases. A Selection from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
Moscow: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. These works come from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius and illustrate an international strain of contemporary art. ""Fluxus is an ironic synthesis of the myriad strands of art activities and details from life all around us. Fluxus is actually the 'stream of... More
Vladimir Maiakovskii: Oblako v shtanakh: k100-letiiu pervogo izdaniia. Stat'i, kommentarii, kritika (Vladimir Mayakovskii: A cloud in trousers: on the 100th anniversary of its pubication. Articles, notes, criticism)
Moscow: Muz maiakovskogo, 2015. pb. One hundred years ago Mayakovsky's poem Oblako v shtanakh marked the beginning of a new literary and artistic movement of the Russian avant-garde. The Mayakovsky Museum celebrates the occasion with this publication of articles and commentary together with a facsimile edition of the 1915 edition... More
Fotografiia, izobrazhenie, dokument, nauchnyi sbornik, vypusk 4 (4)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2013. pb. 98 p., approx. 40 color and b/w illus., Rus. with summaries in ENGLISH. ISSN: 2221-1764. More
Futurologiia: sovremennye russkie khudozhniki i nasledie avangarda / Futurology: contemporary Russian artists and the heritage of the avant-garde
Moscow: Garazh, 2010. pb. The authors and curators of this Garage Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue comment in detail on the works of fifteen artists, and two substantive articles on contemporary art seek to place the works among the innovative art of the early twentieth century. 93 p., 28... More
The New Décor
Moscow / London: Garazh / Hayward Gallery, 2010. sewn pb. Works from galleries and museums in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, England, the Unted States, China, and Japan provided works for this exhibition at the the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Originating in the Hayward Gallery in London, the exhibition... More
Russkaia futuristicheskaia kniga (Russian Futurist books)
Moscow: RIP kholding, 2014. pb. This book surveys the efforts of futurist writers, poets, and artists to to introduce new ideas in book publishing and design.The author surveys nineteenbooks illustrated with lithographs and published from around 1910 to 1920. 229 p., 24 cm, approx 130 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
Natal'ia Nosova: Vo vremeni / Natalia Nosova: The Time Space
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2008. Abandoned monumental art (e.g., reliefs of Lenin, revolutionary scenes from 1917) and the faces and hands of old women are the subjects that interest this contemporary Russian photographer, whose works are published in this catalogue of an exhibiiton at Rosfoto, the Center for Photographic Research and... More
![Dmitrii Levitskii: “Smolianki” i novye otkrytye: k 275-letiiu so dnai rozhdeniia khudozhnika (Dmitrii Levitskii [the Painting] “Smolianki” and New Findings: [Published on the Occasion of] the 275th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth). O. Iu. Klenova G. N. Goldovskii.](/pictures/thumb/2055.jpg?v=1508174239)
Dmitrii Levitskii: “Smolianki” i novye otkrytye: k 275-letiiu so dnai rozhdeniia khudozhnika (Dmitrii Levitskii [the Painting] “Smolianki” and New Findings: [Published on the Occasion of] the 275th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz. sewn cl. The serene and self-possessed countenances of Levitskii’s portraits of girls and women are reminiscent of Gainsborough's and Reynolds's English ladies. In this catalogue the authors present their research on the seven works Levitskii did in the 1770s of students of Smolnyi Institute (Smolianki), the... More
Grokhochet bal, siiaet bal...Svetskie uveseleniia v Peterburge XVIII - nachala XX veka (The ball resounds, the ball dazzles: society diversions in St. Petersburg from the 18th to the early 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2014. sewn pb. The ball was above all a spectacle, and the paraphernalia that was de rigueur - dresses, fans, glove cases, masks, costumes - make up a rich vein of visual culture. The works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the museum... More
Trudy Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii Sankt-Peterburga, vypusk 23. Russkii stil'. Stil' zhizni i stil' iskusstva. Materialy konferentsii.
St. Petersburg: 2013. Pb. 183 p., color and b/w illus., Rus. More
Sokrovishcha Kurgana Khokhlach.Novocherkasskii Klad (The State Hermitage Museum. Irina Zasetskaya. Treasures from the Khokhlach Barrow. Novocherkassk Hoard.)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2011. Sewn cl. This is the most complete publication so far attempted featuring one of the invaluable collections of antiquities in the Hermitage Museum: the Novocherkassk hoard from the Khokhlach Barrow found by chance during construction work in 1864 on the outskirts of Novocherkassk, Rostov province. Irina... More
Ivan Sotnikov: zhivopis' XX – XXI veka (Ivan Sotnikov: paintings of the 20th and 21st c.)
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2015. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition of paintings by the late Russian artist opened in December 2015 at St. Petersburg's private museum specializing in late Soviet and contemporary art New Museum (Novyi muzei). It gives a broad sampling of works by an artist whose style sometimes... More
Shestoe chuvstvo avangarda: Tanets, dvizhenie, kinesteziia v zhizni poetov i khudozhnikov (The sixth sense of the avant-garde: dance, movement, kinaesthesia in the lives of poets and artists)
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. sewn pb. This is a complex story of how the physical, aesthetic, and intellectual were intertwined in avant-garde literature and art. The author has compiled book art and posters of the early twentieth century that give evidence to her arguments on the connection between movement... More
Evgenii Rastorguev
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2012. Pb. During the 1970s and 80s Rastorguev worked out a style apparently very simple - he shunned perspective and placed in awkward positions, evidently stylizing his work after Russian popular prints (lubki). But by the culmination of his career in an exhibition devoted to his work... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, t. XII, Miniatiura, vypusk I, Portretnaia miniatiura XVIII – pervoi treti XIX veka (Pavlovsk State Museum-Preserve: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. XII, Miniature Painting, vypusk 1, Portait miniatures of the 18th and first third of the 19th c.)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2014. sewn pb. This edition of Pavlovsk's complete catalogue publishes what is now an extinct genre but in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was so important for its artistic and sentimental value that whole walls of palace rooms were hung with miniature portraits of children, parents, and... More
Uzornoe tkachestvo narodov Kryma v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia Vostoka (Pattern weaving of Crimean peoples at the State Museum of Oriental Art)
Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2013. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes forms of textile art that have been extinct since the indigenous populations of Crimea were expelled by Stalin in 1944. The different coasts of Crimea and the inland steppe areas developed their own distinct traditions. Content: collections of Crimean weaving; outline... More