Eduard Shteinberg: esli v kolodtse zhivet voda... (Eduard Shteinberg: if in the well there lives water...)
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2017. Pb. New museums founded after the fall of the Soviet Union and often based on private collections are doing the most innovative efforts to discover, publicize, and interpret recent art, and this catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art brings into focus paintings and drawings by an artist of the second half of the twentieth century who continued and built on the experiments of the Russian avant-garde. Dating from the 1960s to the the first years of the twenty-first century, Shteinberg's works seem to deal with recurrent themes of twentieth-century Soviet art: the imagery of rural labor and the countryside, the ways in which the artists of the avant-garde period changed the expanded the vocabulary of artistic expression. 208 p., 24 cm, approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. Chapter titles: Groundedness: landscape, images of women, meetings with death; Existentialism: self-awareness, woman-bird, bird-sufferer, stones, fish, memento mori; the Metaphoric still-life: still-life with stones, metaphysical still-life with fish, transformation and metaphysical still-life, the spiritual in art; Diaries; Synthesis; Life of the artist. Item #2689
ISBN: 9785916110814
Price: $67.00