Item #320 Evgenii Mikhnov-Voitenko. E. Andreeva V. Nazanskii, S. Popov.
Evgenii Mikhnov-Voitenko
Evgenii Mikhnov-Voitenko

Evgenii Mikhnov-Voitenko

St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn cl. Studying with Nikolai Akimov at the Leningrad Theater Institute in the 1950s, Mikhnov-Voitenko (1932 – 88) got acquainted with an artist who was directly tied with the Russian avant-garde before its suppression, and from the start he was drawn to abstraction. A second stroke of luck for MV was that during the mid 1950s after Stalin's death the Soviet Union got a peep at what artists in the West had been doing: on the third floor of the Winter Palace the Hermitage began exhibiting Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Picasso was exhibited at the newly opened Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Add to these circumstances a repulsion for the official art of Socialist Realism and we can understand the course that Mikhnov-Voitenko chose and which led Mikhnov-Voitenko to become a major figure in Russian art of the second half of the twentieth century. Two substantive articles introduce this beautifully produced catalogue of the New Museum/Novyi muzei in St. Petersburg. Appendixes: biographical chronicle, list of museums collecting Mikhnov-Voitenko, excerpts from the artist's memoirs. 279 p., 27 cm,, approx. 120 color and b/w illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. Item #320
ISBN: 9785990240612

Price: $110.00

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