Kniazhna Vera Konstantinovna: k 100-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia
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Rakhim Akhmedov
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani, 2018. Sewn cl. One of the byproducts of Soviet rule in Central Asia was the introduction of instruction in secular art among traditionally Islamic peoples and the opportunity for the artistic to train in Leningrad or Moscow. The subject of this monograph is an Uzbek artist who... More
Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Fotografiia v muzee” 19 – 22 maia 2015 g. (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums,” 19 – 22 maia 2015 g.)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2015. pb. Rosphoto (Rosfoto) the exhibition and research center for Russian photography has published another volume in its series identifying and describing photographic collections around Russia. In this edition published on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II many chapters examine collections of war... More
Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXIV / Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXIV
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Reports are an annual publication of the Hermitage publishing research of its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, Broader articles present acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned... More
Igor' Terent'ev. Dva tipograficheskikh shedevra. Faksimil'noe izdanie. Stat'i. Kommentarii (Igor Terentyev. Two typographic masterpieces. Facsimile edition. Articles. Commentaries)
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. sewn pb. This edition in the series on the Russian avant-garde book publishes two facsimiles "A Treatise on Total Indecency" (Traktat o sploshnom neprilichii, Tiflis, 1920) and "17 Petty Guns" (17 erundovykh orudii, Tiflis, 1919) detailed commentaries and articles placing them against the background of the early Soviet..... More
Nikolai Iaroshenko: zhivopis' i grafika. Memorial’nyi muzei-usad’ba khudozhnika N. A. Iaroshenko, g. Kislovodsk (Nikolai Iaroshenko: Painting and Drawing. Memorial Museum-Estate of the Artist N. A. Iaroshenko in Kislovodsk)
Piatigorsk: Sneg, 2003. Pb. 143 p., 12 cm, approx. 100 color and b/w illus. More
Skevrskii relikvarii / The Skevra Reliquary
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes a masterpiece of Armenian metalwork, a reliquary dating to 1293. The reliquary was made in the Monastery of Skevra in the Armenian kingdom in Cilicia in southeast Asia Minor, and after many peregrinations ended up in the Hermitage collection during the... More
Belyi grom zimy. Vladimire Sterligov, Irina Potapova, 1939–1943: pis'ma, stikhotvoreniia, grafika, vospominaniia (White thunder of winter. Vladimire Sterligov, Irina Potapova, 1939–43: letters, verse, drawing, memoirs)
Moscow: Barbaris, 2017. Sewn pb. One of the direct heirs of the avant-garde, Vladimir Sterligov, who worked under Malevich at GINKhUK (State Institute of Artistic Culture) in the 1920s. Arrest and a sentence to the GULAG cut short the first stage of his artistic career, but back in Leningrad in... More
Maiakovskii i ego sovremenniki. Fond foto-, kino- i audiodokumentov. Katalog vystavki (Maiakovskii and his contemporaries. Catalogue of an exhibition of the photographic, film, and recording collection)
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2013. sewn pb. These photos record an amazing time in Russian art — verbal, visual, and musical — such as a photo of Shostakovich, Meierkhol'd, Mayakovsky and Rodchenko during a rehearsal for Mayaovsky's play Bedbug (Klop). A portrait of Gorkii in Cologne taken by El Lisitskii, a.... More
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Maiakovskii – khudozhnik. Fond izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva. Katalog vystavki (Maiakovskii the artist. Art Collection [of the State Mayakovskii Museum]. Exhibition catalogue)
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2013. pb. These paintings and drawings from one of a series of exhibitions celebrating the 120th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky demonstrate that his talent as an artist though eclipsed by his reputation as a great poet deserves attention. His paintings in a realistic style..... More
Kochevnik: mezhdu nebom i zemlei. Shedevry drevnikh kul'tur stepei Evrazii iz sobraniia Istoricheskogo muzeiia i proizvedeniia skul'ptora Dashi Namdakova (Nomad: between sky and earth: masterpieces of Eurasian steppe cultures from the collection of the Historical Museum and sculptural works by Dashi Namdakov)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2014. Sewn cl. Chapter titles: The great steppe: constellation of nomadic cultures: pictures of the world of the Eurasian steppe; Between East and West: art of the Eurasian nomads,ornamental compositions and artistic images in Bronze Age steppe art; archeology of traditions; World view of the... More
Armianskaia kollektsiia Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii religii (Armenian Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religions)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Religii, 2011. Sewn pb. The museum’s collection has paintings on religious subjects from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. They represent several styles in which the Armenian church and artists dealt with sacred themes: icons, general biblical scenes, depiction of the main events in Armenian..... More
Vse i nichto: simvolicheskie figury v iskusstve vtoroi poloviny XX veka (Everything and nothing)
St. Petersburg: Limbakh, 2011. The author curates exhibitions on Soviet and contemporary art in leading museums of Russia. In this synthetic work she compares artists of the second half of the twentieth century from Eastern and Western Europe and the United States such as Timur Novikov and Evgenii Mikhnov, Jackson... More
Andrei Ivanovich Shtakenshneider: arkhitekturnye proekty iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeia istorii Sankt-Peterburga (Architectural Designs from the Collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2006. pb. These drawings and plans (1830s–1850s) by Emperor Nikolai I’s favorite architect reveal a talent for adapting historical styles in a new way. He could do with equal tact a smallish rural palace on the Gulf of Finland for Nikolai’s daughter and enormous residences..... More
Tsarskoe Selo: Palaces & Parks
St. Petersburg: Al'fa-Kolor, 2008. sewn pb. A nicely produced and thorough visual survey of the buildings, interiors, works of decorative art at the palace ensemble of Tsarskoe Selo. The first chapters cover the main structures: the Catherine Palace, the Bath Pavilion, the Hermitage Pavilion, the Cameron Gallery, the Agate Rooms... More
Velikaia kniaginia Mariia Pavlovna
St. Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 2014. 9785903945030 (Informatsionnoe ob'edinenie "Liki"). More
Dereviannoe zodchestvo, vypusk I: Novye issledovaniia i otkrytiia (Wooden Architecture, 1: New Research and Discoveries)
Moscow: Kolo, 2010. 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
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1913: Slovo kak takovoe: k iubileinomu godu russkogo futurizma (1913: "The Word as Such": Anniversary of Russian Futurism: proceedings of the international research conference [Geneva, 10 –12 April 2013])
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. sewn pb. The articles published here stem from a conference in Geneva at which scholars from several countries looked at the year 1913 as a turning point from predominantly representational art and literal poetry to abstract art and poetry based loosely on sound associations. These... More
Vtoroe rozhdenie Spasa na Krovi (Second birth of the church On Our Savior's Blood)
St. Petersburg: Isaakievskii sobor, 2007. sewn cl. The construction and restoration of the church involved artists of many skills. The authors explain their achievement and illustrate the details of the exterior and interior ornamentation. 224 pp., 9 ½ x 11 3/8 ins., approx. 200 color illus., Rus. More
Rozhdennaia v plameni: koreiskaia keramika iz Natsional'naia muzei Korei. Katalog vystavki (Born in flames: Korean ceramics from the National Museum of Korea)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn pb. The Hermitage together with the National Museum of Korea shows the extraordinary beauty of Korean ceramics which attained aesthetic and technical brilliance as early as the twelfth century. The simplicity of form, subtle shades of green and white, and spare adornment distinguish the works... More
Boris Kosatkin: zhivopis’ iz rossiiskikh muzeev i chastnykh sobranii (Boris Kosatkin: paintings from museums and private collections in the Russian Federation)
Moscow: In Artibus, 2015. Sewn pb. Kosatkin's painting cannot be pigeonholed. He was expelled from the artists’ Union in the 1980s—his work was too different from the conventions of Soviet official art. Nor did he find a place among the nonconformist or conceptualist circles of the late Soviet period. The..... More
Zhurnaly zasedanii Soveta Ermitazha, chast' 1, 1917 - 1919 (Journals of the Hermitage Board, part 1, 1917 - 1919)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2001. sewn cl. The records of the thirty-two sessions of the Hermitage board published here document the ordeal of an institution charged with protecting and exhibiting works of arts immediately after a revolution and during a civil war. Evacuating works in time of war, warding off claims... More
Tvorchestvo dobra. Peterburgskii arkhitektor Andrei Petrovich Aplaksin, 1879-1931 (In Pursuit of Good: Petersburg Architect Andrei Petrovich Aplaksin. 1879 – 1931)
St. Petersburg: Baltiiskaia zvezda. sewn. cl. The architect's name is familiar only to specialists but although many of his projects were destroyed or unimplemented, his role in shaping the architectural identity of St. Petersburg was quite significant. Living in a very difficult historical period for the country he constructed a.... More
Moskovskaia arkhtekturnaia keramika, konets XIX – nachalo XX veka (Moscow architectural ceramics of the late 19th and early 20th c.)
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
Antonio Menegetti: master radosti / Antonio Meneghetti: maestro do allegria
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2015. sewn cl. The Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, the branch of the Russian Museum specializing in contemporary art, exhibits and publishes not only Russian artists, but also American and Western European ones. This exhibition catalogue of recent works by an Italian painter comprises abstract... More