Russkaia narodnaia odezhda: ponevy i iubki (Russian folk clothing: shifts and skirts)
Moscow: Boslen, 2018. Sewn cl. 253 p., approx. 300 color illus., Rus. More
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Mednye i bronzovye (latunnye) izdeliia Irana vtoroi poloviny XIV – serediny XVIII veka: katalog kollektsii (Iranian Copper and Bronze (Brass) Artefacts from the Second Half of the 14th to the Mid-18th Century: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. This edition of the complete catalogue of the Hermitage publishes exquisite examples of Iranian metalwork from the world’s largest collection. Among the themes that the author develops in the introduction are the use of inscriptions (verses, prayers) to ascertain origin; names of owners and..... More
Ia — Vasilii Kamenskii (I am Vasilii Kamenskii)
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2006. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition uses the rich archives of the Mayakovsky Museum to focus on one of his fellow futurists the poet Vasilii Kamenskii. The work of poets and artists was so closely intertwined at that time (ca. 1912) that many literary works were..... More
Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Fotografiia v muzee” 16-18 maia 2017 g. (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums,” 16 – 18 May 2017)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2017. pb. These articles are based on presentation at a St. Petersburg conference held this May. They publish photographs from far-flung collections around Russia. Most valuable is the survey of collections that few are aware of. Thanks to the English summaries, scholars and researchers of the history..... More
V poiskakh Diagileva (In Search of Diagilev)
St. Petersburg: Sankt-Peterburgskaia akademiia kul'tura, 1997. sewn pb. Photographs, caricatures, drawings, and reminiscences evoke the colorful personality and dynamic career of the founder of the Ballets russes, who was a major force in early twentieth century art and dance in both Russia and Western Europe. 102 pp., 7 7/8 x...... More
Lager' (Camp)
Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2017. Sewn cl. This was one of the first assignments that the young artist who would become a major figure in Soviet art received. Working for the eminent and exacting art director and artist Vladimir Lebedev at the State Publishing House in the mid 1920s, Pakhomov remembered..... More
Sokrovishcha russkogo severa iz sobraniia Kirillo-Belozerskogo muzeia-zapovednik (Treasures of the Russian North from the collection of the Kirillo-Belozersk Museum-Preserve)
Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve, 2014. sewn cl. Works form the Kirillo-Belozerskii Museum-Preserve show the strains of Russian church art that flourished in the far north, including icon-painting, applied and decorative arts — metalwork as seen in liturgical vessels; textiles and embroidery of priestly vestments and altar cloths; sculpture in carved iconostasis and..... More
Traditsionnaia kul’tura Tatar XIX – XX vekov (Traditional Culture of the Tatars in the 19th and 20th Centuries)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012. sewn pb. These works from the Russian Museum of Ethnography’s (St. Petersburg) vast collections were exhibited at the Kazan Kremlin in 2012. They display a spectrum of artistic culture of the Tartars: costume, jewelry, embroidery, weaving, ceramics, metalwork, leather mosaic, and dolls. Especially dazzling are the..... More
Ivan Pokhitonov 1850–1923
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2019. Sewn pb. M TG This catalogue of a Tretyakov Gallery exhibition brings into focus an artist whose unconventional technique and self-education in Western Europe left him out of mainstream art history. The authors and curators cite Pokhitonov’s contemporaries such as Ilya Repin and Lev Tolstoi to..... More
Stindardul liturgic al lui Stefan cel Mare (Liturgical Banner of Stefan the Great)
Chisinau: Muzeul Nartional de Istorie a Romaniei, 2011. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the National Museum of Archeology and History in Moldova publishes a liturgical banner commissioned by Stefan the Great of Moldavia in the sixteenth century and donated to a monastery on Mt. Athos. Chapters cover..... More
Igor Mukhin: I've seen rock 'n' roll: photographs 1985 – 1991 / Igor' Mukhin: Ia videl rok 'n' rol: fotografii 1985 – 1991
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2016. Sewn cl. During the last half decade of the Soviet Union's existence Igor Mukhin, a Russian photographer whose works have been collected by museums in Russia and the West (e.g., the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Multimedia Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Corcoran..... More
Sankt-Peterburg v svetopisi 1840–1920-kh godov (St. Petersburg in Early Photographs, 1840s to the 1920s)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2003. Sewn pb. In this Hermitage exhibition catalogue photographs document the changing look and style of the city at the end of the imperial period; especially noteworthy as visual documents are many shots of period interiors. Articles examine the evolution of Russian photography, the different genres of..... More
Kollektsiia kniazia V.N. Argutinskogo-Dolgorukova v sobranii Gosudarstvenogo muzeia istorii Sankt-Peterburga (Prince V. N. Argutinskii-Dolgorukov's collection in the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2013. sewn pb. This exhibition catalogue publishes architectural sketches, drawings, engravings and lithographs together with a sampling of photos and paintings collected by Argutinskii-Dolgorukov in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century when he was one of the founders of the Museum of Old St..... More
Dereviannoe zodchestvo, vypusk V: Novye issledovaniia i otkrytiia (Wooden Architecture, V: New Research and Discoveries)
Moscow: Kolo, 2016. sewn cl. Initiated by the Russian Academy of Architecture and Building Science, this series publishes research and visual documentation on a distinct form of Russian architecture. Authors focus on three main areas: works of architecture that have neither been studied nor published previously; history and interpretation of..... More
Aleksandr Rodchenko i ego krug. Konstruktivnyi mir. Mechty o prostranstve. Proekty i ob''ekty, zhivopis' i grafika, eksperimental'naia fotografiia, fotomontazh i fotoreportazh (Aleksandr Rodchenko and his circle. The constructivist world: dreams about space, projects and objects, painting and drawing, experimental photography, photomontage, and photo reporting)
Moscow, Noril'sk: Muzei Noril'ska, 2019. Sewn cl. This catalogue on Rodchenko and those who experimented in various genres creating in varied avant-garde styles photography, painting, drawing, architectural design, advertisement, and poster. Chapter headings: The avant-garde city; the arctic as a cultural landscape; dreams; planes, circles, lines; space and perspective; the..... More
Narodnoe iskusstvo nizhegorodskogo kraia (Folk art of the Nizhnii Novgorod region)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. The region of the lower Volga River distant from the westernized imperial capital of St. Petersburg preserved traditions of adorning everyday tools, carving architectural details, sculpting religious figures, embroidering clothing, and making lace long after these traditions died out in other parts of..... More
Fotomontazhnyi tsikl Iuriia Rozhkova k poeme Vladimira Maiakovskogo "Rabochim Kurska dobyvshim pervuiu rudu". Rekonstruktsiia neizdannoi knigi 1924 goda. Stat'i. Kommentarii (Vladimir Mayakovsky. Poem "To the Workers of Kursk Who Extracted the First Ore…": A series of photomontages by Yuri Rozhkov. Reconstruction of the unpublished 1924 book. Articles. Commentary)
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. sewn pb. Publication of photomontages by one of the less well-known artists of the avant-garde demonstrates that the techniques and styles of avant-garde art constituted a movement, an aesthetic in wide practice; the giants like Malevich, Tatlin, Lisetskii, and Rodchenko were only the most talented..... More
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Vremia Dorrera (The Age of [Valerii] Dorrer)
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii institut istorii iskusstv, 2013. sewn pb. Ten museums, theaters, and the artist's family contributed set and costume designs to this catalogue of works by a major artist of the twentieth-century Soviet theater. In these works of the mid 1940s to the early 1980s Dorrer shows that he..... More
Laurits Tuksen: pridvornyi khudozhnik: proizvedeniia iz sobraniia Danii i Rossii (Laurits Tuxen, Court Artist: Works from Danish and Russian Collections)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. Sewn pb. Painting as a means of chronicling court life became an anachronism as photographic techniques improved in the second half of the nineteenth century, yet the Danish painter Laurits Tuxen, thanks to the patronage of the empress Maria Fedorova, wife of Alexander III and daughter..... More
Aleksandr Blok. Dvenadtsat’: k stoletiiu pervoi publikatsii. Pervoe illiustrirovannoe izdanie poemy. Otkliki sovremennikov. Izdaniia poemy i illiustratsii iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii Sankt-Peterburga (Aleksandr Blok. The Twelve: [Published on the occasion of] the 100th anniversary of the first edition. First illustrated edition of the poem. Responses of contemporaries. Editions of the poem and illustrations to it from the collection of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg begins with a facsimile of the first illustrated edition of Blok’s poem on the 1917 revolution “The Twelve” in which Iurii Annenkov’s illustrations capture the gritty heroes of the revolution, the..... More
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Kuskovo: k 90-letiiu Muzeia-usad'by (Kuskovo: [Published on the Occasion of] the Nintieth Anniversary of the Museum-Estate)
Moscow: Triton, 2016. Sewn pb. This catalogue gives a dazzling overview of Kuskovo, the name of a great palace and park ensemble outside Moscow dating to the second half if the eighteenth-century. Expertly photographed interiors show the design details and the works of fine and decorative that adorn the rooms..... More
Zaven Arshakuni: o radosti zemnoi… (Zeven Arshakuni: About the Joy of this World), 978-5-905942-08-2
St. Petersburg: Manezh, 2013. pb. Sixteen museums and galleries as well as private collectors contributed works to the first broad retrospective exhibition of the Leningrad/St. Petersburg artist at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg). This book is the catalogue of the exhibition and publishes examples of Arshakuni’s work in..... More
Sud’ba uchenogo: K 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia Borisa Aleksandrovich Latynina (The Fate of a Scholar: [Articles Published on the Occasion of the] 100th Anniversary of the Birth of B. A. Latynina)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2000. Pb. The authors of these articles unfold the research interests of the Hermitage scholar B. A. Latynin (1899–1967) as reflected in the work of scholars whose research he inspired. The chapters deal with such subjects as burial practices of the Early Bronze Age in Southeast Europe..... More
Sviato-Troitskaia, Aleksandro-Nevskaia Lavra (Holy Trinity Aleksandr Nevskii Lavra)
St. Petersburg: Art-Deko, 2006. sewn cl. An album on one of Russia’s principal monasteries that publishes new and archival photographs portraying its complex architectural history beginning with Trezini’s early eighteenth century design. The work combines art historical material—rarely seen shots of the interiors of the monastery’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings..... More
Leonid Sokov: nezabyvaemye vstrechi (Leonid Sokov: unforgettable encounters)
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2016. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery publishes drawings and works of sculpture by a major artist-satirist of the late Soviet and contemporary period. Paintings, drawings, collages, and especially works of sculpture show various aspects of the talent of the contemporary..... More