Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2015. Sewn pb. The artist whose works are published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the State Museum of the Orient (Moscow) was a major figure in the artistic movement of the late Soviet period known as Moscow Conceptualism and has continued in the post-Soviet period..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage's newly active department of contemporary art publishes works by Italian artists who used everyday materials (construction site leftovers, trash, cheap tools, hence the name Arte Povera or Poor Art) to create collages, sculptures, and other forms of..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Petronii, 2015. sewn cl. In this catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage's new galleries for contemporary art we see images that seem to be from other worlds and other centuries. Taken from the eighties to 2014, these shots convey the beauty, strength, and simplicity of..... More
Moscow: Garazh, 2010. pb. The authors and curators of this Garage Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition catalogue comment in detail on the works of fifteen contemporary artists. In two substantive articles they trace in the work of contemporary art living strands of the avant-garde experiments of the early twentieth century..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Chistyi list, 2012. sewn pb. In the grand building of the General Headquarters designed by Karl Rossi for the Imperial Army in the early 1800s the Hermitage has found an original site for its contemporary art galleries, and it is here that a selection of the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. This edition in the Hermitage's series of concise surveys of Greek and Roman art in the collections covers arms and armor through both actual pieces and their depiction in vase-painting, sculpture, and cameos. A concise but exceptionally well-illustrated survey of interest for the publication..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2013. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at Kazan publishes works of ancient art—vase-painting, sculpture, and numismatics—as well as a range of Western-European art including tapestries, medals, rare books, etchings, and paintings inspired by ancient athletic contests. The theme that ties the works together is the spectacle..... More
Moscow: Garazh, 2011. Pb. Selecting these photographs from the Arpad A. Busson Foundation for exhibition at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, the curators use photography not only to illustrate historical events that took place in the 1950s, but also to show how works of photographic art shape our perception of history. The..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage publishes works from German, British and Russian collections done by Ernst in the crucial period of his career, the 1920s, when he was working in France and developing what would become his surrealistic aesthetics. Chapter titles..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2006. Sewn cl. The Kremlin Museums' collection of English firearms derives from the imperial family's collecting over several centuries and the royal armory at the Kremlin. It is especially strong for the early seventeenth century, when diplomatic contacts were frequent, and also has rare works from..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Sewn cl. The connection between arms and other forms of applied and decorative arts is clear on every page of this catalogue of the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection: the fine metalwork lifts these arms above the level of mere tools or weapons. The author traces..... More
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2012. Sewn cl. The seventeenth century saw much trade and diplomacy between Russians and Dutch, and many precious works of Dutch gunsmiths came to the royal armory as gifts from ambassadors and merchants. Patterns and scenes inlaid into the wood (e.g., floweres, leaves, vines, birds, animals..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2010. sewn pb. This exhibition catalogue publishes a selection of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century paintings from the Hermitage, which has the largest collection of Spanish painting outside Spain. Presented in the catalog are 21 canvases from the late sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries, including those by the..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. From the famous Bohemian workshops of the sixteenth century to the studios of the art nouveau period in France, these examples of glass from the Hermitage demonstrate the aesthetic and formal potential of the medium. The Hermitage’s collection is rich in both the purely..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm / Slavia, 2013. Sewn cl. This selection of works from the Hermitage comprises textiles, applied and decorative arts, furniture, arms and armor and paintings. Seventy-four works are catalogued, and each department of the Hermitage’s collection of Spanish art is outlined. 106 pp., 9 x 8 ins., approx..... More
Moscow: Krasnaia ploshchad', 2008. sewn pb. This exceptionally rich catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts publishes almost 300 Russian and Italian paintings, posters, illustrations and book covers. Sketches the lives and careers of fifty artists who shaped the movement known as futurism enhance the reference..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Pb. The provenance of book collections, formations of libraries, and studies of individual publications such as albums of Renaissance architectural drawings and French fashion magazines are among the themes of the articles published here based on a Hermitage conference on the book and book art. 253..... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2008. sewn pb. Using the collection of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the curators of the Academy’s exhibition show how enduring were the forms of beauty that Raphael’s work established. Through paintings, architectural drawings, engravings, and sculpture by Russian and Western European artists we..... More
Moscow: Moskovskii ob''edinennyi muzei, 2014. pb. These works from five museums show how an applied and decorative art can verge on the fine arts. Artists using various techniques (painting, engraving, embroidery, carving) to shape and illustrate sensuous materials like silk, lace, bone, and spangles. Works come from Western Europe and..... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Lait, 2014. sewn cl. Gatchina Palace was built in the mid eighteenth century on land outside St. Petersburg given by Catherine the Great to the favorite who helped her accede to the throne, Grigorii Orlov. Orlov saw the palace as a grand hunting lodge in the..... More
St. Petersburg: Gatchina / Lait, 2017. sewn cl. This final volume of the collection catalogues of the Gatchina Palace-Museum's arms collection publishes firearms from Germany (except Saxony and Thuringia, published in vol. III) and works added to the collection in 2014–16. The introduction outlines the formation of the collection in..... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. Benefiting from international collaboration (Corpus Vitrearum) and the Hermitage’s new stained glass restoration laboratory, this exhibition catalogue publishes stained glass from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Flanders of the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. Drawings by Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Lang the Elder, Pieter..... More
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2013. sewn pb. These photos record an amazing time in Russian art — verbal, visual, and musical — such as a photo of Shostakovich, Meierkhol'd, Mayakovsky and Rodchenko during a rehearsal for Maykovsky's play Bedbug (Klop). A portrait of Gorkii in Cologne taken by El Lisitskii, a...... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2017. Sewn cl. The Tretyakov Gallery performed a feat for its exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Bolsh vik revolution mustering on-target works from twenty-five museums in Russia, France, Germany, and England, and from ten private collections. Free of tendentiousness, the exhibition has works by artists..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2004. sewn pb., This catalogue publishes for the first time all the icons of the iconostasis of the church built by Trezzini for Peter the Great in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. The catalogue entries establish dates of painting, give size and condition..... More