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: Herm, 2018. Sewn cl. Examples of Picasso's collaborations providing images for such writers as André Salmon, Pierre Reverdy, Apollinaire, Gongora, André Suares, Paul Eluard and classics like Ovid, Aristophanes, and Balzac. 95 p., 27 cm, approx. 150 color illus., Rus. and FRENCH. Run: 300. More
Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2020 (1st ed. 1922). Sewn cl. This is a facsimile edition (slightly smaller) of Lisitskii's 1922 book not to be read but used as instructions to assemble, color, build (skladyvaite, kras'te, stroite) with colors and shapes. Dating to his time with UNOVIS (Utverditeli novogo iskusstva, Affirmers of..... More
Moscow: Rudentsovy, 2020. Sewn pb. This catalogue of sixty-six selected bindings from the Moscow University Library demonstrates the work of a private binding workshop formed by the eminent military officer (e.g., head of allied artillery in war against Napoleon) and diplomat (represented Alexander I's government in Persia). A bibliophile from..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi Institut iskusstvoznaniia, 2019. Sewn cl. The foremost specialist on Western European illuminated manuscripts in Russian collections broaches large questions on the history of miniatures and painting in medieval Western Europe in the first section of this book (especially French manuscripts of the fifteenth century after the 100 Years..... More
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2019. sewn cl. In this volume of the multi-volume history of Russian art undertaken by the Institute of Art History (Moscow) — the first such undertaking in two generations — a team of eight authors headed by Engelina Smirnova, the eminent historian of icon-painting, describes and interprets art and..... More