AKADEMICHESKAIA DACHA: ISTORIIA I TRADITSII (The Academy's Dacha: history and traditions)
St. Petersburg: Petropol, 2009. Sewn cl. In the 1880s, with the assistance of the art patron V. A. Kokorev, the Russian Academy of Arts acquired a dacha between Moscow and St. Petersburg on the River Msta that could be used by for the study of landscape painting. Such great nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists as Repin, Levitan, and Serov benefited from the impulse the dacha gave to plein-air work. Closed in the early Soviet perod but reopened after World War II the dacha fostered a tradition of landscape painting that produced many fine works. Especially fertile were the last three decades of the Soviet period. 182 pp., 9 x 11 5/8 ins., 23.3 x 30.7 cm., 8 b-&-w illus., 153 color, sewn cl., Rus. Item #4362
ISBN: 9785981740237
Price: $86.00