Mnogolikii Palekh (Many-sided Palekh)
Ivanovo: Referent, 2015. Sewn cl. This monograph on a provincial town known since the seventeenth century its icon-painting workshops is as much sociological as art historical. The artists of Palekh decorated local churches with frescoes and icons and sold icons at fairs around Russia. Most extant icons and frescoes date to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. After the 1917 revolution the artists turned to a secular form of art painting folk scenes on lacquer boxes. The author chronicles the town and its artistic activity through photographs of artists and artisans and of the works originating in Palekh. 411 p., 26 x 20 cm, approx. 200 b/w and color illus., Rus. Item #3867
ISBN: 9785902022251
Price: $41.00