St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. These works from twelve museums and private collections unfold a page of Russian art history full of fresh images and unfamiliar names. The vicissitudes of politics and art in the Soviet period resulted in the ostracism not only of great abstract artists of the avant-grade..... More
Moscow: Kontakt-Kul'tura, 2017. sewn cl. This book publishes a private collection of posters on the theme of the 1917 revolution—182 works collected by Sergo Grigoriana, the first published in 1918 the last around 1980, with the majority dating to 1920s, 30s, and 40s. As Russia and the Soviet Union emphasized..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2012. sewn cl. Three main chapters deal with the different manifestations of artistic expression in the early Russian confederation centered around Kyiv: architecture, painting, and ornament of various kinds (e.g., manuscripts, metalwork, reliefs). The experience of recent decades broadened scholarly methods and led to the adoption of..... More
Voronezh: Faust, 2014. 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. n.p., 22 cm, approx. 60 illus., Rus. Series: City Alphabets. More
Moscow: Masterskaia / Shrift, 2014. Sewn pb. This study of two predominant type styles of the 1920s considers both of them revolutionary, points out that both were superseded in the 1930s after the romance of the revolutionary period was over by a homogenized style. The style based on the work..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Slavia, 2013. This selection of works from the Hermitage comprises textiles, applied and decorative arts, furniture, arms and armor and paintings. Seventy-four works are catalogued, and each department of the Hermitage’s collection is outlined. 106 pp., 9 x 8 ins., approx. 100 color illus., sewn cl...... More
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Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2015. sewn pb. The importance of drinking wine and tea in not only the Far East, but also in the Caucasus and Central Asia comes forth vividly in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Arts of Asian Peoples (Museum of the Orient, Muzei..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus Muz, 2011. sewn cl. The vague title of this catalogue does not express the serious scholarly content of a catalogue that publishes an exhibition at the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery on the ways in which the Eastern Orthodox church commissioned, inspired, and cared for many..... More
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Moscow: Fond kul'tury Ekateriny / Garazh, 2013. Sewn cl. Biographical sketches of artists and curators, chronicle of artistic events, and a catalogue of gallery exhibitions helps readers get their bearings in the turbulent new era of post-Soviet / Russian art which began as the USSR disintegrated. Compiled from an exhibition..... More
Moscow: Institut russkogo realisticheskogo iskusstva, 2017 (?). Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Institute of Russian Realistic Art in Moscow publishes paintings of the Soviet and current period by artists from the ancient Russian town of Vladimir. The artists are seen by the curators as a regional..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2012. Sewn cl. Saltykov was a member of an aristocratic family who traveled and recorded in accomplished drawings not a professional artist, but a chronicler of exotic peoples. He was in the Russian diplomatic corps and served in Constantinople, London, Teheran and other cities before resigning..... More
St. Petersburg: Borey Gallery, 2019. Saddle-stitched. This catalogue of a gallery exhibition publishes a contemporary artist's work inspired by the Islamic genre of Shamail, which combines imagery, often of a mosque, with words to create something like an Islamic icon. Also part of the exhibition are Abdullina's series of drawings..... More
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
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2015. sewn pb. Filonov's paintings constitute a distinct and powerful branch of the Russian avant-garde. The author of this monograph studies Filonov's work in the context of other form if painting of the 1920s and 30s, when Filonov conceived and developed his theory of analytical art..... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2002. Sewn cl. Ornamenting dress with gold and especially silver has for centuries been central to the aesthetics of the Islamic population of Kazan, the Tatars. Metalwork was used for jewelry and ornaments sewn into clothing, which had both a decorative and a talismanic purpose. The text combines..... More
Tula: Tul'skii muzei oruzhiia, 2017. Sewn pb. This collection catalogue of the Tula State Museum of Arms publishes works that few have access to. Famed for its metalwork, including arms and armor, since the early eighteenth century Tula naturally attracted people interested in the history of arms and collecting arms..... More
St. Petersburg: Rossiiskaia natsional'naia biblioteka, 2019. Pb. Based on visual documents from manuscripts and scores, mainly Western European and Russian, this overview of the history of committing musical sounds to paper summarizes the attempts from the medieval period to the twentieth century of creating a uniform system of denoting sounds..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2015. sewn cl. This Russian Museum catalogue of paintings by the great but still understudied artist of the late nineteenth century publishes Kuindzhi's unexampled landscapes of the steppe, Crimea, the Caucasus, and celestial phenomena from clouds and sunsets to crescent moons, rainbows, and the moon's reflections..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2014. sewn cl. . This catalogue of an exhibition at the Marble Palace of the Russian Museum publishes a cross-section of cinema poster art: styles from the late tsarist period, when the World of Art, Symbolist and Neo-Russian styles flourished, contrast with those of the avant-garde..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of works of artists and artisans of the extreme Russian East from the 1960s to the contemporary period shows a robust strain of Soviet-Russian realism engaged in depicting the colorful world of a regional people the Nivkhi. 60 p., approx. 50..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2007. Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin after major exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg is being recognized as a principal figure in Russian modernism whose oeuvre offered an alternative not less imaginative than the great avant-gardists who chose abstraction. Rarely seen works from private collections by a major painter of..... More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2017. This edition in the Tri kvadrat's unique series of collection catalogues of museums around Russia publishes works housed at the St. Cyril Belozersk Monastery. Among the extraordinary works of art and artifacts are painted tiles dating to the 17th through the 19th centuries; reliefs in stone..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. The 100th anniversary of the 1917 revolution has prompted reconsideration of the political upheaval's effect on all aspects of life: here the Russian Museum publishes works exhibited in a major show "Art Translated into Life," on the sweeping effort of the new regime..... More
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2009. pb. Twenty-four authors present their research into different facets of the work of the of the great figures of the Russian avant-garde, both artist and poet. 283 p., approx. 40 b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. sewn cl. This edition of the complete collection catalogues of the Hermitage annotates and illustrates 135 paintings of various genres by British artists, some for the first time, and 329 portraits for the Hermitage's military gallery commissioned by Emperor Alexander I from George Dawe in 1818..... More