Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. Trained in the 1920s during the heyday of the avant-garde, Tyshler could work in a variety of experimental styles. In the Stalinist years he turned to graphic and theater art as a safer sphere to work in than painting for exhibition, but in the..... More

St. Petersburg: DEAN / Avangard na Neve, 2018. Sewn cl. The artist who is the subject of this edition of the series Avant-Garde on the Neva created a style of painting that combined Byzantine-Russian icon-painting and American abstract expressionism, writes Professor John Bowlt in his preface. Vin’kovetskii saw art as..... More

St. Petersburg: EGO, 1996. Sewn cl. This catalogue publishes icons, other forms of Orthodox art, flags, banners, medals, arms and armor from five museums in St. Petersburg (the Suvorov, Military-Medical, Naval, Artillery, and History of Religion) whose collections are relatively arcane. Together they indicate how the identity of the military..... More

Moscow: Slovo, 2019. Sewn pb. Sergei Shchukin built a collection that showed modern Western European art in its most brilliant and daring forms. The chance he gave his countrymen to see such artists as Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso, and Gaughin was not merely a matter of giving them joy by granting..... More

Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2019. Sewn pb. The 1917 revolution seemed to entail radical change in all spheres, and the theme of this catalogue is how experimental ideas played out in the tangible aspects of the theater—costumes and sets— and in fashion design for clothing that would suit the new era..... More

St. Petersburg: Muzei iskusstva S-P XX–XXI vekov, 2018. Sewn pb. These works from an exhibition at the Museum of 20th- and 21st-Century Art in St. Petersburg illustrate the ways in which artists in the Soviet Union and Russia portray children. The range of styes reflect different periods from the 1930s..... More

St. Petersburg: Russkaia kollektsiia, 2006. Sewn cl. The painter who is the subject of this monograph was a central figure in St. Petersburg's unofficial art world in the 1960s and 70s. He was in the circle of artists known as "the Eleven" (Odinnadtsat'). HIs paintings are representational but he chooses..... More

Zurich, St. Petersburg: Muzei iskusstva S-P XX–XXI vekov / International Art Project. sewn cl. This catalogue of an an exhibition at the Museum of 20th- and 21st-Century Art in St. Petersburg displays the work of three artists. Tatiana Nazarene has a style that mixes the stark clear forms of icon..... More

St. Petersburg: Manezh, 2009. sewn pb. In this catalogue of an exhibition of three Leningrad/St. Petersburg artists at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg, we see styles of the late Soviet period and the post-Soviet years that unfolded as censorship and regimented forms characteristic of official art of..... More

Moscow: Sergey Gordeev, 2011. sewn cl. Ladovsky taught at VKhuTeMas (Vyshie khudozhestvennye i tekhnicheskie masterskie, Higher Artistic and Technical Studios), the laboratory of the avant-garde, and developed in his teaching, writing, and designing a theory of architecture called rationalism. Selet Chapter Titles: Historical and Cutural Prerequisites for Rationalists; Nikolai Ladovsky..... More

St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2019. Pb. This catalogue of a gallery exhibition publishes paintings and drawings done mainly between 1910 and 1930. Serebraikova came of age during Russia's Silver Age, and her delicate portraits of children and sensual nudes fit the hedonistic and romantic mood of the period. Chapter titles: Works..... More

Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2017. Sewn cl. The artist Evgeniia Evenbakh trained with several major artists of first half of the twentieth century: Nicholas Roerich, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, and Vasilii Shukhaev. "I did not illustrate books: I took life and gave it back in colors," wrote Evenbach. And in the book reprinted..... More

Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2018. Sewn cl. Alexander Deineka mastered the innovations of the avant-gard as seen in cubism and constructivism, but mainly did figurative or representational art. His graphic art appeared in many journals of the revolutionary period (e.g., Red Sheath [Krasnaia niva], Atheist at the Equipment [Bezbozhnik u stanka]..... More