Zabytaia Rossiia: pamiatniki i monumental’naia skul’ptura XVIII – nachala XX veka (Forgotten Russia: monuments and large-scale sculpture of the 18th to the early 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2006. Sewn cl. These drawings, models, engravings and photos from museum archives provide the visual evidence for significant works of sculpture that for one reason or another were unrealized or lost. The authors describe pieces by fifty-one designers, architects, and sculptors who worked on these examples of public art, from neoclassical statues of figures from the country’s past to an art nouveau grave monuments for the artist A. I. Kuindzhi designed by the architect Aleksei Shchusev, and a poignant bust of Mikhail Vrubel emerging or sinking into black stone, intended as a grave monument (he died relatively young after a spell of mental illness). Also memorable is the treatment of monuments that symbolized the old regime such as the equestrian statue of Alexander III lying on its side in a desolate corner of a park. 119 pp., 9 x 8 ½ ins., 69 b-&-w illus., 59 color, sewn cl., Rus. Item #1718
ISBN: 5933322113
Price: $44.00