Rikhard Vasmi: zhivopis', grafika (Rikhard Vasmi: painting, graphic art)
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2015. pb. Vasmi's paintings of the last four decades of the Soviet period as published in this gallery exhibition catalogue show a strain of art that was far from the sanctioned Socialist Realist style. He learned from the experiments of the early twentieth-century avant-garde but his cityscapes, portraits, and landscapes, vaguely representational, imply the undercurrents of Soviet reality: stagnation, oppression, constraints of a totalitarian state. 147 p., 27 cm, approx. 150 color illus., Rus. Item #1243
Run: 300. This edition is part of a series based on gallery exhibitions of paintings and drawings by artists of the late twentieth century working in Leningrad. These catalogues make accessible to historians of twentieth-century art and visual culture a vital branch of Soviet-Russian art. Curators draw on private collections to show works characterizing various stages of the artists' careers.
Price: $74.00