Russkaia skul'ptura ot Shubina do Matveeva (Russian sculpture from Shubin to Matveev)
St. Petersburg: Svobodnye khudozhnniki Peterburga, 2021. Sewn cl. This catalogue publishes sculpture from an ambitious exhibition — forty museums contributed works — at the Manege Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg) which aims to give a look at the history of Russian sculpture from the first secular works of the eighteenth century to modernist pieces of the early twentieth century. The works are valuable as sculptural art and as iconography — the most expressive works of portraiture of several members of the imperial family, for example. In a detailed introduction the authors explain the succession of styles, their relation to other genres and Western European sculpture. Nicely lit, photographed, and printed the illustrations give a vivid sense of the works three-dimensionality. The scholarly apparatus comprises biographies of artists and their subjects, and a thorough index. 606 p., 26 cm, approx. 500 color and b/w illus. Rus. Item #4187
ISBN: 9785604486467
Price: $142.00