Moscow: Krasnaia ploshchad', 2001. Sewn cl. 527 p., 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 ins., approx. 500 color illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2014. pb. ISSN: 1994-9367. More
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
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2015. sewn cl. Sixteen museums and collectors have contributed poster art, paintings, drawings, and prints to this Russian Museum thematic catalogue. Some works date to the last years of the imperial period (e.g., Aleksander Benois, Vasilii Shukhaev, Aleksandr Iakovlev); many were done during the Soviet period... More
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2013. Cherkasov uses a photographic technique that captures shapes and tones without distracting colors. His images in the photo cycles such as "Near Moscow", "Ukraine: the Little Homeland. Donbas", and "Black Earth: Russia" consist of striking landscapes and desolate human environments reminiscent of Edward Hopper's paintings. 187... More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A. S. Pushkina, 2009 (2nd, enlarged and corrected edition). sewn pb. This catalogue has been the life work of the author who undertook in the 1960s a systematic and scholarly description of the Pushkin Museum’s collection of Japanese prints. The collection lacks early works of... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Sewn cl. The connection between arms and other forms of applied and decorative arts is clear on every page of this catalogue of the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection: the fine metalwork lifts these arms above the level of mere tools or weapons. The author traces... More
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2004. Pb. Using various research methods, especially those of conservators, the authors establish new attributions for a range of works of Russian secular art during its early periods through the start of the nineteenth century, some of which were done by the Russia's first great... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2008. Sewn pb. Arms and armor, textiles, jewelry, glass, and metal work show the dazzling artistry of the Ottoman Empire mainly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Imagery is both Islamic and Christian, as many of the works in the Kremlin Museums collection were commissioned by... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1999. sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition publishes some of the best works of the Hermitage's splendid collection of French drawing by such artists as Jaques-Charles Bellange, Daniel Demoustier, Simon Vouet, Claude Mellan, Charles le Brun, Eustace le Sueur, Poussin, and Le Lorrain. 175 p, 28... More
![Zarubezhny farfor i keramika IV veka do nashei ery--pervoi chetverti XIX veka (Foreign porcelain and ceramics [4th century B.C. to the first quarter of the 19th century]). I. V. Gorbatova.](/pictures/thumb/1939.jpg?v=1479009184)
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Sewn cl. Most works in the Kremlin collection are from Western Europe – Austria, England, Germany, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Italy, and France (German and French works are the most numerous), but there is a chapter on China. 402 p., 30 cm, approx. 450 color illus.... More
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2009. pb. The author, an eminent historian of the book, Ivan Vasil'evich Levochkin, gives a framework for following the history of manuscripts and manuscript art in Russia from the first bibles commissioned in Kievan Rus' to the last creative burst of manuscript art under Ivan the Terrible... More
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
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2016. Sewn pb. The three sections of this book — philosophy and poetry, poetry and painting, painting and philosophy — indicate the authors perception of the Russian avant-garde as a movement introducing experimental styles and new ways of thinking that broke down boundaries between the arts... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn cl. This is a history of art history, in particular, how the Hermitage's great collection of Spanish painting became part of world scholarship through collaboration with Western European specialists, continuous study, and publication, all of which was initiated and furthered by the curator of the... More
St. Petersburg: Eklektika, 2008. Pb. The author gives basic data and a brief stylistic characterization of both grand and overlooked buildings, including a chapter on those built in the post-Soviet period. 416 p., 4 x 8 ins. 1544 color illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Al'fa-Kolor, 2010. sewn cl. This new publication on the Catherine or Great Palace at Tsarskoe Selo, published to celebrate its 300th Jubilee, underlines the significance — both architectural and historical — of the palace's state rooms and living apartments, which were the sites not only of the daily... More
1997. This Hermitage collection, originating in pre-revolutionary private collections, boasts fine enamel painting, metalwork and engraving. Each piece is annotated with a bibliography, and appendices log watchmakers, enamelers, and engravers. 96 pp., 8 x 10 ins., 236 color illus., sewn pb., ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn pb. Introducing these works of jewelry and stone carving, the curator of the Hermitage's decorative arts department seeks to identify the pursuits, techniques, and styles prevalent in contemporary Russian art. 199 p., 25 cm, approx. 180 color illus., Rus. with title page and summary in ENGLISH. More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2011. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art publishes a sampling of works by a contemporary painter who in his landscape paintings uses dark tones and blurred lines to suggest a mood. In such paintings as "Low Sun," "Dry Grass," and "Long... More
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2018. Sewn cl. The irony of the Soviet authorities' banning a book glorifying the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) because its preface was written by a disgraced revolutionary is pungent. The propaganda of the poem cloys but typifies the revolutionary period; it was written for publication in... More
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia, 2014. sewn cl. In this comparative study the author begins with a look at the use of ceramics for ornamenting buildings and interiors in such cities as Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Budapest. She then focuses on its flourishing in the architecture and interior design at the turn... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2017. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at Pavlovsk Museum-Palace is the first publication of a collection of prints (mainly engravings) done primarily by English artists and collected by Maria Fedorovna, wife of Emperor Paul, in the late eighteeenth and early nineteenth century. They are of... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2015. sewn cl. Beginning around the mid nineteenth architects and designers working in various genres used modern construction techniques while stylizing their works according to this or that historical period. In this catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at Vyborg clocks, porcelain, furniture, costume, and liturgical vessels all demonstrate... More
St. Petersburg: Kuznechnyi pereulok, 2015. Sewn cl. Beginning with the frontispiece portrait of Dostoevskii by Iurii Annenkov, this book shows an unusual unstudied byway of twentieth-century art. The costume and set designs show how artists imagined Dostoevskii's characters and settings. They span the century (1910 to 2000), amounting to an... More