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: Gatchina, 2016. Saddle-stitched. This concise catalogue of an exhibition at Gatchina Museum-Preserve, one of the favorite residences of the Russian imperial family, unfolds the different aspects of childhood as both fun and play as well as instruction and upbringing. Paintings, photographs, and actual objects used by the Romanov... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, 2017. Saddle-stitched. The illustrative material published in this concise catalogue of a Gatchina Museum-Preserve exhibition comes from about a dozen museums and archives. It shows everything from the Louis Vuitton traveling trunk of the late nineteenth century to the chapel on board the imperial yacht Standard. The... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, 2017. Saddle-stitched. In this concise catalogue of an exhibition, memorabilia of the last year of the tsarist period and the first months of the revolutionary period come mainly from the collections of Gatchina Palace-Preserve. Photos, paintings, drawings, prints, and articles of everyday life convey the aura of... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017 (1st ed. 2016). Sewn cl. The talent of capturing nature at its most most mutable — Aivazovskii was the Russian Turner: seascapes were his forte — combined with the iconographic value of visual chronicles and the drama of showing man facing elemental forces give Aivazovskii's... More
St. Petersburg: Erarta, 2017. Sewn pb. Unofficial art in Leningrad came out of the closet at two momentous exhibitions in the mid-1970s at the Gaz Palace of Culture and the Nevskii Palace of Culture: GLEB Bogomolov had works at both exhibitions, and in the 1980s was part of the artists'... More
Moscow: In Artibus, 2014. Sewn pb. Fifteen museums and private collectors lent works for this exhibition of paintings and drawings by an artist active in the Soviet Union from the 1940s through the 1980s. As one of the authors writes in the preface Veisberg was not of any school official... More
Moscow: uzei Anatoliia Zverev, 2017. Pb. These prints and paintings inspired by the image of Don Quixote in literature and art have a verve and brightness that approximate the tone of Cervantes's comic novel. Exhibited at the Anatolii Zverev Museum in Moscow, the works here seem to demonstrate that art... More
Moscow: Breus, 2018. Pb. This is an innovative study of a film director's imagery in the context of the history of art. Among the parallels and sources of Eizenshtein's strong imagery of the human body the author identifies Leonardo da Vinci, Francis Bacon, and Edgar Degas in Western European art... More
Moscow: In Artibus, 2015. Sewn pb. Kosatkin's painting cannot be pigeonholed. He was expelled from the artists’ Union in the 1980s—his work was too different from the conventions of Soviet official art. Nor did he find a place among the nonconformist or conceptualist circles of the late Soviet period. The... More
Moscow: Iskusstvo XXI vek, 2018. Sewn cl. In this elegantly designed and profusely illustrated monograph the author, curator at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, looks at all aspects of the work by Vladimir Veisberg (Weisberg), whose paintings from the 1940s to the 1980s can be seen as one long... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2017. Sewn pb. After being inspired by Disney in the mid 1930s Fedor Khitruk established himself as a first-rate animator at the main USSR animation studio Soyuzmultfilm. His first film as director came much later in 1961 and is considered a classic of Soviet animated movies: “History... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei nonkonformistskogo iskusstva / Dean, 2017. Sewn cl. The circle of artists and writers — Ry Nikonova, Sergei Sigei, A Nik (Nikolai Ansel'rod), Boris Konstriktora, Boris Kudriakov — that are the subject of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg came... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga. These drawings, plans by the architect who designed such masterpieces of baroque style as the Winter Palace, the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo, and Smolnyi Cathedral show how Rastrelli conceived his works, refined them, and eventually worked out definitive ensembles. From the main façade to... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2001. This concise exhibition catalogue displays the drawings that Gonzaga did for many parts of Pavlovsk Palace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Gonzaga excelled at grand designs for buildings and intimate ones for curtains. His work is another reminder of how Western European artists... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1999. Sewn pb. Besides a hefty part of neoclassical palaces, civic buildings, and estates, the great Italian architect working in Russia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries designed grave monuments, garden structures, and sculptural pedestals, all elements of perfectly harmonious neoclassical ensembles. His skill as... More
St. Petersburg: Zhuranl proekt Baltiia, 2013. pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg displays a range of building types — from ambitious projects such as apartments houses, schools, hotels and markets to small-scale structures for individual patrons such as a cottage, green... 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
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage's newly active department of contemporary art publishes works by Italian artists who used everyday materials (construction site leftovers, trash, cheap tools, hence the name Arte Povera or Poor Art) to create collages, sculptures, and other forms of... More
Kazan: Tatarskoe knizhnoe izdatel'stvo, 2005. Sewn cl. This catalogue publishes paintings by artists working in Kazan' and other cities of the Tatar Republic during the late Soviet period and early post-Soviet period. As a group they defy categorization. In their substantive introduction, the authors point out that the Tatar population... More
St. Petersburg: Tret'iakovskaia galereia / Institut realisticheskogo russkogo iskusstva, 2017. Sewn cl. One of Russian's new exhibition centers initiated by private collectors, the Institute of Realistic Russian Art in its five years has organized several major exhibitions. This catalogue publishes a traveling exhibition of paintings by twentieth-century artists in which... More
Moscow: Art-Volkhonka, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery continues the recent trend of museums collaborating with collectors. Exhibiting portraits from the St. Petersburg collection of A. L. Katkov that have never been published before, the Tretyakov Gallery makes accessible to scholars paintings done the... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. The Hermitage reports published annually highlight the past year’s achievements in research, conservation, and exhibitions. Hermitage scholars concentrating on single works or collections make known their findings on attribution, dating, and interpretation. They point out significant acquisitions and publish research and documents on the history... More
St. Petersburg: Arka, 2018. Sewn cl. The author, curator of Western European painting at the Hermitage, presents his reasoning behind a new attribution of a Dutch seventeenth-century painting in a St. Petersburg private collection. He points to the benefits of restoration and new scholarship by Dutch and German authors as... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. Works from the Hermitage together with those from the Naples National Archeological Museum and other museums in Italy recreate the transitional era approximately from the sixth to the tenth centuries when migrant peoples entered the Appenine Peninsula and became the basis of the future... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. Published in this Hermitage exhibition catalogue are sixty-three paintings by the Hungarian artist painted from the 1860s to the 1880s. The curator of the exhibition note Munkacsy's ability to draw on several styles that connect his work to Biedermeier, romanticism, realism, and academism. He... More