Bronze Horseman books travels to Russian and international book fairs several times a year to select books on World Art in Russian collections and Russian art and architecture books based on the interests of our customers at museum and university libraries, art historians, scholars of Slavic visual culture, and collectors. Between trips our book professionals in St. Petersburg and Moscow send us samples of important new books. Please see below descriptions of books we have recently added to our stock.
St. Petersburg: Istoricheskaia illiustratsiia, 2017. Sewn cl. Oranienbaum was the only great palace ensemble outside St. Petersburg that was not commissioned by the imperial family: it was Alexander Menshikov, Peter the Great's right-hand man,for whim who had the palace built in the grandest of early eighteenth-century styles. This monograph based... More
Ufa: Fond Mardzhani, 2010. Sewn pb. Unclassifiable paintings by an Islamic artist doing both representational and abstract paintings. Mukhametov began exhibiting in the 1970s after finishing Ufa Art School, and the works published here date from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Organized by style and technique,the catalogue gives an... More
Chis in u: Editura Arc, 2007. Sewn cl. The artist who is the subject o this monograph came of age in the late 1940s, when Moldova was part of the Soviet Union. His paintings fit the prevalent form of Soviet art, Socialist Realism — he portrays people in an optimistic... More
Chis in u: Infocus, 2016. Sewn pb. Movileanu's watercolors of the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000‘s show the earthy beauty of the Moldavian city of Kishinev (Chisinau). The artist does not veer off into the abstract but using intense bands and splotches of color, he makes buildings and sky, ground... More
Tehran: Yassavoli, 2015 [1st ed. 2005]. Sewn cl. This album on the ancient Persion capital offers a view of the the works of ancient art around Persepolis with some works from Iranian museums: outdoor reliefs and works of sculpture; ruins of palaces; glazed brick friezes and sculpture from the Iran... More
Moscow: Multimedia Art Museum, 2017. Exhibiting drawings and watercolors of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague, Istanbul, Venice, Rome, Barcelona, New York, and other cities around the world, the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum gives us a chance to enjoy the immediacy and beauty of these media as they render fleeting light, colors... More
Moscow: Buksmart / Gos. Institut iskusstvoznaniia, 2017. This comparative monograph on artists in Russia, Western Europe and America focuses on those who abandoned conventions and set off in new and felicitous directions.415 p., 24 cm, approx. 100 color illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. Sewn pb. The author helps us get our bearings in the complicated world of late Soviet and contemporary Russian art, sharing his insights on such artists as E. Bulatov, O. Vasil’ev, I. Kabakov, A. Kosolapov, V. Komar, A. Melamid, A. Monastyrskii, I. Nakhova, V. Nemukhin... More
Moscow: Moscow National Center for Contemporary Arts, 2007. Sewn cl. In a substantive introduction to this exhibition catalogue, the curator and author points out analogies to Alexandra Paperno’s star imagery in Western art of the nineteenth and twentieth century, but he sees in the complex media she uses and the... More
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg publishes paintings from the 1980s to the present by a Tadzhik artist. Although Akilev has recognizable people, things, and places in his paintings, his imaginative use of light and shade... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. This copiously illustrated catalogue of an exhibition at the Tate Modern, the Hermitage, and the Tretyakov gallery presents the gigantic scope of the Kabakovs’ interpretation in sundry media of their experience of a totalitarian regime. Perhaps most impressive is the artists' use of so... More
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
Moscow: Ekaterina, 2011. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition focuses on a generation of artists who adhered to a representational style that is neither realistic nor academic. Initiated in part during the 1980s by Timur Novikov who coined “new academism” for the works of artists (including his own) that... More
Kazan: Zaman, 2015. Sewn pb. The studio in Kazan affiliated with the Academy of Fine Arts considers its roots the Kazan Art School founded in 1895, where such artists as Nikolai Feshin and Alexander Rodchenko trained and taught. This survey of its students’ paintings from the 1980s to the present... More
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani / Muzei Vostoka, 2014. Sewn pb. The artist whose paintings are published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka) has a continually evolving style from compositions of colors and forms to vaguely representational depictions of figures and places. Inspired by... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2010. Sewn pb. The final volume of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art’s history of video work in Russia presents some of the inventive current works in this genre. 144 p., 24 cm, approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2009. Sewn pb. The second volume of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art’s illustrated history of video art in the Soviet union and Russia describes the decade beginning in the mid-1990s. Detailed entries on artists and their works provide a framework for understanding this art... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2007. Sewn pb. A substantive essay on how video art arose in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and then evolved in the 1990s and early 2000s is followed by entries an individual artists and their experiments in video art. Chapter titles: video as modernist... More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2008. Sewn pb. Paintings centered in great cities and legendary places inspired the artists whose works from the 1920s to the early 21st century are published in this catalog of an exhibition of the Museum of the Orient (aka the State Museum of the Art of the... More
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2012. Sewn pb. Section titles suggest the themes of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art of paintings and sculpture by a major figure of the late Soviet and current period: Cult images of Soviet cosmos; Appropriation of the symbols... More
Moscow: Art-Volkhonka, 2018. Sewn pb. The author, a graphic artist, teacher of design, and historian of book art, came of age in the 1960s, and in this book catalogues what he sees as the most distinctive works of the first post-Stalinist years. the period may not rival the explosion of... More
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts consists of drawings, prints, and sculptures by the late Soviet-Russian artist, whose unconventional human figures in otherworldly places are not science fiction but as he put it, “ in general I.... More
Moscow: 2012. Sewn cl. Antoni Tapies, Antoni Clavé, Juan Gris, Joan Miro, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso are among the artists whose drawings and prints turn these books into works of art. 190 p., 28 cm, approx. 150 color illus., Rus. with artists' name in the original. Sewn cl.. [2958]. ISBN... More
Moscow: Rost Media, 2012. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Manège in Moscow publishes examples of books commissioined by the visionary publisher Ambroise Vollard and illustrated by major artists of the twentieth century: Pierre Bonnard, August Rodin, Paul Cézanne, August Renois, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Paul Dufy... More
Moscow: Rost Media, 2013. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Manège in Moscow publishes editions of the Odyssey by Hans Erni, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and André Masson. The editions date from the the 1930s to the 1970s. Together the give a look at the ways modern... More