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
Moscow: Fond kul'tury Ekateriny / Garazh. 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 organized... More
![Gaga [Grigorii Kovenchuk] risuet klopa i mnogoe drugoe (Gaga [Grigorii] Kovenchuk draws The Bedbug and much else). A. Porygin A. Borovskii.](/pictures/thumb/172.jpg?v=1515541618)
St. Petersburg: Timofei Markov, 2013. sewn cl. In 1974 on the 90th anniversary of the birth of the poet and playwright and artist Vladimir Maiakovskii Sergei Kovenchuk illustrated Maiakovskii's famous play "the Bedbug." The illustrations were first banned, and in this edition the artist recounts the history of his work... More
Moscow: Sovpadenie, 2006. sewn pb. In the early eighteenth century Peter the Great wrenched Russian culture westward, which was especially evident in architecture (steepled churches replaced onion-domed ones, for example). Nevertheless, Russian building traditions did not cease to interest and attract architects. As the achievements of medieval architecture began to... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn cl. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue gives a picture of the scope the museum's work investigating ancient cultures across Europe and Asia. The finds in such places as Tuva have enriched the Hermitage's collections and world scholarship. Iu. Iu. Piotrovskii has compiled for this editon a.... More
St. Petersburg: Kriga, 2009. sewn cl. The author has mustered copious visual documentation to refute the general view that St. Petersburg architecture entered a phase of decline after the magnificent boom of Alexander I’s reign (1801–25). His illustrations of interiors and exterior architectural details, such as balconies and railings, suggest... More
Moscow: State Museum-Preserve "Tsaritsyno" 2008. sewn pb. 203 p., 27 cm., approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn pb. The series of annual Hermitage exhibitions published at year's end stems from a tradition of the tsarist period according to which the Imperial Porcelain Factory would make special works to be presented at Christmas time to the tsar. The theme of the 2014 exhibition... More
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2016. 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
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2017. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art publishes an artist who after working with Pavel Filonov and the Collective of Analytical Artists became part of the Circle of Artists association in the 1920s and 30s distinguishing himself... More
St. Petersburg: Avangard na Neve, 2018. Sewn pb. This edition in the longtime series publishing artists mostly from Leningrad and St. Petersburg who attempt to continue the experimental methods of the early twentieth century publishes artists who differ greatly from each other; what unites them is a renunciation of realistic... More
Moscow: Belyi gorod, 2004. sewn cl. Gagarin (1810–1893) was educated by tutors in Italy, where his father was ambassador under Alexander I. Still a boy, he took art lessons from Karl Briullov. His career in the foreign ministry led to posts in Munich and Constantinople while he was still in... More
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii univ, 2014. pb. Lisitskii's red wedge cracking into a white circle together with the pithy caption "Smash the Whites" would have been one of many propaganda posters of the period of the civil war (1919– 21) had not the work itself been a masterpiece of spare geometric... More
Moscow: Breus, 2017. Coming if age. In the Khrushchev years, Orlov had a chance to be inventive and original: he resisted the pressure to Coming of age in the Khrushchev years during a relative relaxation of government censorship, Orlov had a chance to be inventive and original becoming a significant... More
Moscow: Buksmart, 2016. Sewn pb. The sultry and brilliant costumes designed by Bakst were as vivid a part of the Ballets russes as the dancing, choreography, and music. This study of Bakst's work in Paris for Diagilev and the Ballets russes glistens with examples of his work from the 1910s... More
Moscow: Sev pal, 2007. Sewn cl. An expertly reproduced facsimile edition of a seventeenth-century manuscript from a monastery collection. The introduction, published as a separate illustrated 24-page booklet, describes the manuscript and points out how its illuminations and script fit into the history of Russian and European book art and... More
Moscow: RA, 2004. sewn cl. Besides creating seminal paintings of the Russian avant-garde, Malevich built the theoretical framework for new forms of art as demonstrated in these written works and his correspondence. The many written and photographic documents relating to Malevich's work with other talented artists, writers, and directors bring... More
Moscow: RA, 2004. sewn cl. Besides creating seminal paintings of the Russian avant-garde, Malevich built the theoretical framework for new forms of art as demonstrated in these written works and his correspondence. The many written and photographic documents relating to Malevich's work with other talented artists, writers, and directors bring... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2014. Sewn pb. Icon lamps, crosses, bible covers, cencers, icon frames, and chalices, most dating to the nineteenth and early twentieth century display the many ways in which commissions for the church and private shrines forstered fine metalwork. The author attributes the works to artists... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum owes its rich sampling of works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century to the inspired collecting of Nikolai Burdunov and the prerevolutionary collection of the Handicraft Museum in St. Petersburg, much of which passed to the... More
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2014. sewn cl. Chapter titles: The early Russian printed book, 16th – 17th c.: art of the first printers, the book in pre-Petrine Rus'. Art of the book in the 18th and 19th c.: Peter I and revolution in book art; in the footsteps of classical styles;... More
Minsk: Belarus. Entsykl. imia P. Broiki, 2016. Sewn cl. The catalogue of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus focuses on its collection of late Soviet and contemporary art. An appendix publishes recent acquisitions such as eighteenth-century icons of Western area of the Russian Empire, which show the... More
St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2004. sewn cl. This edition of the series Artistic Centers of Rus’ (Tsentry khudozhestvennoi kul’tury srednevekovoi Rusi) first notes the achievements of Novgorod in creating a fresco tradition in Russia and then surveys all extant wall and ceiling paintings from the four churches of the eleventh... More
Moscow: Kontakt-kul'tura, 2008. Sewn cl. The large corpus of illustrations, many reproduced from the original drawings, together with short biographies of artists and authors, and an appendix on publishers of children's books in the late tsarist and Soviet periods make a excellent reference work on a of a branch of... More