Ksilografiia iz sobraniia Russkogo muzeia (Ksilographs from the collection of the Russian Museum)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn pb. Used first in Russia to print prayers and short didactic texts in the early seventeenth century, the technique of printmaking that is the subject of this Russian Museum catalogue has had a long history in Russia from garish forceful popular prints or lubki of the seventeenth century to the technique's revival in the twentieth century. The works from the Russian Museum give an sense of how it has enriched visual culture. Five chapters on different aspects of woodcuts and their use in various periods introduce the catalogue of almost 200 works from popular prints (lubki) on moral and religious subjects to angular modernist works done during the blockade of Leningrad. Some prints stand on their own as independent works of art by major twentieth-century artists as Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Solomon Iudovin, and Vladimir Favorskii. An appendix compiles short biographies of about fifty artists. 152 p., 23 cm, approx. 250 color illus., Rus. Item #3204
ISBN: 9785933326267
Price: $43.00