St. Petersburg: Lik, 2001. saddle-stitched. This overview of one of the great Russian theaters of the imperial period has three chapters: Birth and Bloom 1833 – 1859; Discoveries and Losses 1859 – 1881; The Ups and Downs of the Epoch 1881–1918. 211 p., 20 x 24 cm, approx. 30 b/w..... More
Moscow: Muzei arkhitektury im. A.V. Shchuseva / Kuchkovo pole, 2017. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture publishes visual documents from over a dozen museums and fifteen scholarly articles, which together in monographic detail show how theater and spectacle evolved in Russia from the..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn cl. The second half of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union has receded far enough in time for historians of art to recognize its most characteristic achievements. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian Museum publishes works from ten museums and private..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. Trained in the 1920s during the heyday of the avant-garde, Tyshler could work in a variety of experimental styles. In the Stalinist years he turned to graphic and theater art as a safer sphere to work in than painting for exhibition, but in the..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia / Skanrus, 2014. Sewn cl. This is the catalogue of an exhibition that illustrates the career of an artist whose costume and set designs distinguished the performances of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater from 1908 to 1955. Published are works of Fedorovskii from collections at the Bakhrushin Theater Museum..... More
St. Petersburg: Avrora, 1998. Sewn cl. Section headings: years of impressionism; beginning of primitivism, painted shop signs; exhibition "The Donkey's Tail"; The East and nationalism; exhibition of popular prints (lubki); artistic debates; exhibition "The Target"; discovery of Pirosmani; experiments in book art; Rayism; Larionov and the Russian Museum; after 1914;..... More
St. Petersburg: Art Deko / Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2011. Sewn cl. Fokin excelled as dancer, choreographer and innovator. His imaginative choreography played a big part in the success of Diagilev's Ballets russes and shaped later generations of twentieth-century ballet. The illustrations are especially enlightening when they juxtapose drawings..... More
St. Petersburg: Nestor-istoriia, 2009. sewn cl. Bakst used motifs from antiquity in many of his stage and costume designs. The author shows how he imitated and adapted classical models. 204 p., 21 cm., approx. 100 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2008. Sewn cl. Artists who left Russia in the first wave of emigration after the 1917 revolution (1917–1930) brought with them the ferment of artistic life in early twentieth-century Russia. This catalogue of an exhibition at two Russian museums and two American museums publishes paintings, drawings..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2008. Sewn cl. Artists who left Russia in the first wave of emigration after the 1917 revolution (1917–1930) brought with them the ferment of artistic life in early twentieth-century Russia. This catalogue of an exhibition at two Russian museums and two American museums publishes paintings, drawings..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2019. Sewn pb. From Mikhail Larionov’s design for a 1916 ballet “Russian Fairy Tales” and Kazimir Malevich's costumes for "Victory over the Sun" to the designs for Dmitrii Shostakovich’s 1934 opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,” the last tsarist years, the revolutionary..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2015. sewn pb. Iakulov was a major figure in the artistic and theatrical world of Moscow, Paris and Yerevan during the creative explosion of the early twentieth century. He conceived of an original approach to painting (multicolored suns, the simultaneity of movement), and as a designer he..... More
Moscow: Teatral'nyi muzei Bakhrushina, 2020. Pb. This concise catalogue of an exhibition at the Bakhrushin Theater Museum celebrates the anniversary of the opening in the 1920 of the first puppet theater in which the roles were not limited to comic buffoonery but expanded into real drama such as Boris Godunov..... More
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Moscow: Teatral'nyi muzei Bakhrushina, 2020. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Bakhrushin Theater Museum in Moscow publishes set and costume designs created by Vladimir G. Serebrovskii for plays and ballets. His works date from the last decades of the Soviet period through the first decades of the post Soviet..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2017. Sewn cl. This gallery exhibition catalogue on a leading artist of the early twentieth century draws together paintings, drawings, posters, theater programs, and book plates from various museums, galleries, and private collections in Russia, France and the United States. Five substantive articles unfold the range of..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2001. Saddle-stitched. This concise exhibition catalogue displays the drawings that Gonzaga did for many parts of Pavlovsk Palace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Gonzaga excelled at grand designs for buildings and intimate ones for interior elements such as window curtains (his stage curtain for..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. The Bolshoi Theater has its own museum of collections of visual documents on every aspect of dance and opera history. The richest chapters — over 250 illustrations — are those on theater design and costume. Chaliapin hooded in black as Mephistopheles, Yurii Pimenov's drawing..... More
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St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii institut istorii iskusstv, 2013. sewn pb. Ten museums, theaters, and the artist's family contributed set and costume designs to this catalogue of works by a major artist of the twentieth-century theater. In these works of the 1950s to the early 1980s Dorrer shows that he learned from..... More
New York: Ukrainian Museum, New York, 2015. sewn pb. The Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv provided most of the visual documents and works of art published this catalogue of an exhibition at the Ukrainian Museum in New York. The extraordinary works show that Moscow..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2019. Saddle-stitched. The desk where the Rimskii-Korsakov created his works, usually working without a piano thanks to his amazing internal hearing, the parlor as it was during the composer's life, where he hobnobbed with other composers and artists, Vasilii Serov's great portrait, archival..... More
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2019. Sewn pb. The authors and curators of the “the Magic of Style” (Magiia mody) organized the exhibition on which this catalogue of actual items of clothing designed in the 1920s together with illustrations from contemporary fashion publications, drawings, and photographs show the imaginative ways in which..... More
Moscow: Ad Marginem Press, 2017. Sewn cl. Eizenshtein's drawings are of interest not only as preparatory sketches for his films, but also as an independent vein of his creativity. Many of them portray figures and events from the Bible; others are risqué, and it is a wonder that he, his..... More
Moscow: Russkii put', 2010. Sewn cl. This memoir by a collector who built a collection of works on Russian theater art of the avant-garde period brings to life a time when a Russian emigrant like Lobanov-Rostovskii saw his mission as saving and uniting works of art that made up the..... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi institut iskusstvoznaniia, 2014. Pb. Theater in the Russian avant-garde period was daring and innovative. Preeminent was the State Meierkhol'd Theater in Moscow, where Meierkhol'd staged plays with the most creative counterparts among writers and artists (e.g., Mayakovsky and Malevich). A contemporary article by Ivan Aksenov on the theater's..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2020. Sewn cl. The research and visual documents published in this catalogue of a gallery exhibition demonstrate the success attained in the experimental styles of the time by an artist who was cut off at twenty-two by typhoid caught in a tram in Petrograd in 1920. Lappo-Danilevskii..... More