Sewn cl. This catalogue of paintings from the 1980s and 90s by an artist in the Ural Mt. region of Russia reveals an artist who combines her mastery of traditional realistic painting techniques with unusual color choices and a nontraditional tone sometimes naive sometimes ironic. Her portraits and landscapes convey..... More
Moscow: Muzei istorii GULAGa, 2018. Sewn cl. Boris Kreitser trained in the 1920s as an architect but was later accused of formalism and switched to book illustration. His father before the revolution was an engineer and often traveled with his family abroad. In 1938 these factors in his biography were..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2017. Sewn cl. The catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg publishes, often for the first time, paintings, drawings, posters, and archival photos showing the ways in which the 1917 revolution was celebrated in public art — banners draped..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2016. Sewn pb. Most of these works of Georgian metalwork date to the twelfth to the sixteenth century and have a tortuous provenance. As a Christian country from the fourth century Georgia had to fend off the inroads of aggressive neighbors of other faiths, which as a...... More
St. Petersburg: Timofei Markov, 2013. Sewn cl. Florenskii's style at once naive and ironic stems from his work as part of the underground artists' group Mit'ki in the late Soviet period. Here he draws many famous sites in St.Petersburg in a style at once naive, childlike, imaginative, and forceful. n.p...... More
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
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St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2017 (1st ed. 2006). Sewn cl. In this volume on the style that had parallels with the Arts and Crafts movement in England, Art Nouveau in France, Jugendstil in Germany, and National Romanticism in Sweden and Finland, the author notes how modern or art nouveau coincided in..... More
St. Petersburg: Tropa Troiaova, 2002 (1st abridged ed. 1900). sewn cl. In the second half of the nineteenth century Rovinskii did for folk painting what A. N. Afanas’ev did for fairy tales and V. I. Dahl’ for proverbs. In the two volumes published here in one book he compiles and..... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, 2016. Sewn pb. Grigorii Orlov, for whom the palace of Gatchina was built in the 1760s as a gift from Catherine the Great, saw Gatchina as a hunting lodge on the model of Chambord built in the early sixteenth century for François I. After Orlov's death the..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2020. Sewn cl. This second volume of the catalogue of an extensive exhibition on works coming to the Russian Museum as gifts focuses attention on the provenance of those works that were given by the artists or their families.The works volume 2 mostly date to the..... More
St. Petersburg: Paritet, 2010. Sewn cl. 365 p. More
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii dom, 2008. Sewn pb. The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) in St. Petersburg has a wealth of material beyond literary manuscripts as this edition of Old-Believer renderings of the Book of Revelation shows. This handsome book presents a selection of subjects from illuminated Revelations, created by..... More
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii dom, 2013. Sewn pb. The Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature) has surprisingly rich collections of visual that are seldom on display. Hence a thematic catalogue reproducing popular prints illustrating tales from folklore does more than just unfold a theme: it makes accessible visual documents that for..... More
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia, 2014. sewn cl. Chernyshev shaped the cityscape of Moscow first during the late imperial period and first decades of the Soviet era. As chief architect of the city in the 1930s he composed the general plan for the reconstruction of the capital (1935). The apparatus comprises a chronology..... More
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
Moscow: Moskovskie uchebniki, 2012. This book traces the history of Andersen's stories in Russian book art giving abundant examples of how each age chose to illustrate the stories. The changing styles from the second half of the nineteenth century to the late Soviet period show the evolution of Russian and..... More
Ekaterinburg: Tatlin, 2015. Saddle-stitched. The author shows how Ginzburg in collaboration with Pasternak and Prokhorov devised an economical and innovative residential building based on current work in Western Europe (e.g., Bauhaus) and the experience of the Russian avant-garde. pp. 433–488, 25 cm, approx. 30 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Ars, 2009. sewn cl. In the third volume in this encyclopedia of applied arts curators and scholars of the Hermitage Museum interweave concise histories of various branches of applied and decorative arts in St. Petersburg—gold and silverwork, ivory carving, lacquer painting, porcelain of private factories, medals. The entries..... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2010. pb. These paintings and drawings done from the 1960s through the 1980s show a vital strain of Soviet art: representative yet not realistic, unconventional in subtle ways such as tone, color, and composition. When Gorban' chose typical themes of the period - workers, factories, demonstrations -..... More
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. Pb. The names by which manuscripts become know is the subject of this monograph. The author uses the rich collection of Slavic manuscripts at the Russian State Library to touch on questions of content, ownership, patronage, place of creation as variables that determined the name of..... More
St. Petersburg: Al'fa-kolor, 2014. sewn cl. These works show the earliest palace ensemble outside the Russian imperial capital in its most grandiose and beautiful aspects from fireworks above Rastrelli's main palace to the romantic architecture of the early nineteenth-century cottage built for the wife of Nicholas "Alexandria." Peterhof curators and..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei nonkonformistskogo iskusstva, 2008. pb. This catalogue of the Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg) publishes paintings and drawings done from 1966 to 2007 by an artist associated with the so-called Hermitage School of contemporary painters who were continually searching for the inner truth of art by studying..... More
Moscow: Pinakoteka, 2009. sewn cl. Catalogued here are works produced at the porcelain factory founded by the great collector and patron of the arts Nikolai Yusupov. The works are now held by about twelve museums in Russia, including the Yusupov Museum Estate, the Historical Museum in Moscow, the Museum of..... More
St. Petersburg: Mednyi vsadnik, 2004. sewn pb. Chapters of this exhibition catalogue cover several themes on the history of the palace ensemble at Tsarskoe Selo, its architecture, interior design, and art collections. Themes deal with the palace as residences and the lives of those who resided there, and their impact..... More
Moscow: Gostudarstvennyi muzei istorii russkoi literatury imeni V.I. Dalia, 2020. Sewn pb. The history of art owes much to those who have had the inspiration, knowledge, and means to build great collections that become museums. In the Soviet period acknowledging the role of private collectors was overlooked — most of..... More