Khudozhniki detskoi knigi 1945–1991 , V: Vagin V. – Vial’ial S. (Artists of children’s books in the USSR 1945 to 1991, V: Vagin V. – Vial’ial S.)
St. Petersburg: Orkestr / Knizhnyi mir, 2019. Sewn cl. The author and compiler has drawn on an extraordinary wealth of material at the Academy of Fine Arts, the Russian State Library, and the Russian State Children’s Library. He also has benefited from ties with relatives of the artists, bibliophiles and collectors. He has thus managed to put together the first comprehensive source on a rich vein of twentieth-century art. Entries comprise copious visual documentation for each artist, biographical information on artists’ education, note the publishers they worked for. This volume includes some of the masterpieces done by Yurii Vasnetsov for Kornei Chukovskii’s stories and Vasilii Vatagin’s extraordinary paintings used as prototypes for his animal illustrations in children’s books (the original paintings are in the Darwin Museum in Moscow as scientifically accurate imagery). Some of the artists in this volume such as Erik Bulatov achieved fame in contemporary art beyond their work as illustrators. 879 p., approx. 7000 color illus., Rus. Item #3215
ISBN: 9785904281021
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.
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