Khudozhniki detskoi knigi 1945–1991 , B: Babaev N. – Bialkovskaia S. (Artists of children’s books in the USSR 1945 to 1991, B: Babaev N. – Bialkovskaia S.)
St. Petersburg / Moscow: Orkestr / Rech’, 2018. Sewn cl. The author and compiler has selected both well-known authors and less famous often underrated ones whose work he considers significant in the history of post-World War II book art and book illustration. Entries note other genres in which the artists worked. illustrations give a good sampling of different phases of artists’ careers revealing how their style developed. Another theme is the way the art of the post-war Soviet period grew out of the styles of the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s like the World of Art movement and the avant-garde. 990 p., approx. 8000 color illus., Rus. Item #3214
ISBN: 9785906414397
INTRODUCTION TO SET In the Soviet period children's books offer two angles besides the literal subject of juvenile literature: first, many of them are propagandistic and show one way in which the Soviet state was drumming in its ideology (e.g., in vol. 2 "Tanya the Revolutionary"); second, some very talented artists (such as Iurii Vasnetsov and Erik Bulatov) constrained while seeking a free original styles in easel painting for exhibition exercised their talent in children's book illustration as a less regimented form of art.
Price: $198.00