Vladimir Shagin: zhivopis', grafika (Vladimir Shagin: painting, graphic art)
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2016. Pb. In this catalogue of a gallery exhibition paintings and drawings from private collections and the Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg) give a good overview of a buoyant and original talent of the Leningrad nonconformists who was active from the 1950s to the 80s. Shagin's mixture of primitivist or naive style with virtuosity of line and composition is difficult to categorize, but there is no doubt that it is a fresh and strong art form. 167 p., 27 cm, approx. 200 color illus., Rus. Item #1722
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.
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