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.
Kazan: Zaman, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue stems from an exhibition at the State Museum of Fine Arts in Kazan focused on two artists who were instrumental in bringing Russian avant-garde and modernist styles to Kazan and the region of Tatarstan after the 1917 applying avant-garde styles to the revolutionary... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei Anny Akhmatovoi, 2017. The owner of Grosvenor Gallery in London Erik Estorick visited Leningrad in 1961; impressed with contemporary artists, he acquired a large number of works done by such artists as Yurii Vasnetsov, Boris Ermolaev, Vera Matiukh, and Anatolii Kaplan in the Leningrad Experimental Graphics Laboratory... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2018. Pb. The artist who is the subject of this gallery exhibition and catalogue came of age in the 1920s, a very rich and creative decade in the history of Russian and European art. He taught in Vitebsk at the laboratory of the avant-garde VKhuTeMas (Higher Artistic... More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2018. Sewn cl. Books written by relatives are sometimes less than authoritative — parti pris makes the author too favorable. Sergei Miturich's monograph on his grandfather is reliable because the purpose is to provide on the basis of family archives and other primary sources a factual framework... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole / Muzei Shchuseva, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture covers many aspects of design and construction especially in the early 1930s when when the metro was conceived and competing designs winnowed — engineering of tunnels and ornamentation of interiors;... More
Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2018. sewn cl. Interviewing artists and others central to artistic life such as Irina Antonova, Erik Bulatov, Pavel Nikonov, Oskar Rabin, Oleg Tselkov, and Vladimir Iankilevskii, Kizeval'ter uses first sources to let readers infer what was going on in the Russian / Soviet art world, what... More
St. Petersburg: Baltikum, 2015. pb. 166 p., 29 cm, approx. 400 color illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. ISSN: 1994-9367, ISSN: No 29: 2/2016–1/2017. More
Moscow: Muzei AZ, 2018. Sewn pb. One of the few museums in Russia dedicated to the work of a single artist, Anatolii Zverev Museum in Moscow celebrates its third year by exhibiting about 250 works from its collection of some 1500, many of which were donated by Alika Costakis, daughter... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2017. Hardcover. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery extends the boundary of what an exhibition in an art museum can be. There is plenty of art per se: painting, drawing, sculpture, poster art, applied and decoration arts; there is also interior design and architecture... More
St. Petersburg: Dean, 2016. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of 20th- and 21st-Century St. Petersburg Art publishes paintings, drawings, and collages by Vaduz Ovchinnikov of the 1980s and 90s. He is capable of amazing variety of styles: his works such as "Crimea at Night" or... More
![Tovarishchestvo Novye Tupye (1996-2002) [Artists association the New Dullards (1996-2002)]. Petr Belyi Lizaveta Matveeva.](/pictures/thumb/2744.jpg?v=1527608086)
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2016. Sewn pb. The performance art of the association of artists and writers who called themselves the New Dullards (Novye Tupye) was poorly documented at the time, and this catalogue of the exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art is the first attempt to... More
St. Petersburg: Borei Art, 2017. Sewn pb. The author as both art critic, curator, and artist for many years was in the thick of unofficial art events in Leningrad / St. Petersburg — underground and apartment exhibitions, performance and protest art. This book is his chronicle of unofficial art in... More
St. Petersburg. Sewn pb. The artists whom the author knew intimately were the pleiad of Leningrad nonconformist painters of the last few decades of the Soviet period. Their art was not abstract but it was also far from the socialist realism of sanctioned art. Stylistic quirks and earthy subjects put... More
St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh, 2003. Pb. The author is curator of contemporary art (Iskusstvo noveishikh tendentsii) at the State Russian Museum. He has initiated and written on most exhibitions of Russian and Western European contemporary and has had personal acquaintance with many Soviet and Russian artists of the last few... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2018. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition of the contemporary art branch of the Russian Museum, the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, show works of the 1990s and early 2000s that combine a virtuosity in painting style with the deliberate distortions of the grotesque... More
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Makhachkala: Epokha, 2012. Sewn cl. The authors and editors have compiled photographs from museums and archives in Dagestan and Georgia. Interspersed with propaganda shots of Dagestan's achievements modernizing in the twentieth century and playing its part in Russian and Soviet states are rare and striking images of towns and villages... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2017. 191 p., 26 cm. More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2017. Sewn pb. Collections of the Imperial now at Pavlovsk Museum Preserve and other museums are the subject of the conference on which this publication is based. Authors touch on a French maker of bronzes of the eighteenth century Francis Remond, works in Malachite used as diplomatic... More
![Za drugi svoia. K 140-letiiu voiny za osvoboshdenie Bolgarii. 1877–1878(For our friends: {published on the] 140th anniversary of the war for the liberation of Bulgaria). I. L. Zhuravskaia.](/pictures/thumb/2728.jpg?v=1525821128)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2017. Chapter titles: Peoples of the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire; the Russian Imperial Army; "Pictures of ta real, not a fake war": photographic record, prints, popular prints (lubki), painting, watercolor, drawings; "A Debt to Humanity." 336 p., 26 cm, approx. 300 color and b/w... 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
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2014. Sewn cl. The Museum of the Moscow Kremlin owns a lavish manuscript of the seventeenth century — the coronation album of the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, which chronicles in elegant miniatures and Slavic calligraphy the beginning of a dynasty in 1613 that would... More
Moscow: Buksmart, 2014. Sewn cl. This book publishes a novella by the painter who was a major figure in the Jack of Diamonds exhibition and and ten articles based on archival research in which the authors look at Mashkov not only as an artist but as an activist and reformer... More
Moscow: Ad Marginem Press, 2017. Sewn cl. Eizenshtein's drawings are of interest not only as preparatory sketches for his films, but also as an independent vein of his creativity. Many of them portray figures and events from the Bible; others are risqué, and it is a wonder that he, his... More