Russian Art
The works of Russian painters, draftsmen, sculptors, designers, and architects constitute a rich branch of world art. Bronze Horseman imports monographs, albums, catalogues, and reference books that unfold the history of Russian art and architecture from its wellsprings in tenth-century Kiev to its latest forms in twenty-first-century Russia.
In their icon-painting Russian artists created some of the most celebrated works of religious art and in the early twentieth century they often led the way to the boldest and most enduring achievements of the European avant-garde. Between these peaks one can discern many other contributions to world art made in different periods and genres from the architects of the Moscow Kremlin to the portraitists of the late nineteenth century.
Bronze Horseman brings to libraries, scholars, and collectors in the West current books on Russian visual culture that publish new research, rarely seen works, and exhibitions generating fresh interpretations. Among sources of books are the two largest collections of Russian art in the world, the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg) and the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow). Bronze Horseman also works with provincial museums, small presses, and galleries to offer original publications seldom available outside Russia.
Avangard i ostal’noe: sbornik statei k 75-letiiu Aleksandra Efimovicha Parnisa (The Avant-Garde and Other Things: Festschrift on the Occasion of the 75th Birthday of Aleksandr Efimovich Parnis)
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2013. sewn cl. The scholar in whose honor these articles are published, Aleksandr Efimovich Parnis, has spent his career researching Russia’s Silver Age and the early avant-garde. Reflecting his interests, the authors write on the art and literature of the early twentieth century, artistic and literary circles..... More
Eduard Shteinberg. MOSKVA. PARIZH. TARUSA (Eduard Shteinberg: MOSCOW, PARIS, TARUSA), 9785895803585
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2022. Sewn cl. This catalogue of the Tretyakov Gallery's publishes drawings and paintings by a major artist of the nonconformist movement of the 1960s to 80s. About half the works come from the Tretykov Gallery; others were lent for this exhibition by museum and private collections in..... More
Igor' Vasil'ev: fragmenty i obrazy (Igor' Vasil'ev: fragments and images)
St. Petersburg: Ars, 2013. Pb. A contemporary artist's imaginings in ceramic, metal and wood. 93 p., approx. 100 color illus., Rus. More
Imperatorskii khram Gatchinskogo dvortsa (Church of the imperial family at Gatchina Palace)
St. Petersburg: Gatchina, N.d. Pb. The palace ensemble at Gatchina is the least well-known of the suburban palaces outside St. Petersburg, partly because it was severely damaged during World War II and partly because it was the last of the palaces to be given museum status. In this Gatchina museum..... More
Isaak Iakovlevich Itkind. Katalog vystavki skul'ptura (Isaak Iakovlevich Itkind: exhibition catalogue of sculpture)
Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1990. Saddle-stitched. These works done from 1930s to the 1950s show the amazing florescence of modern sculpture in wood primarily in Moscow. Itkind's portraits and reliefs have an edgy modernist quality while remaining bascally representational. n.p., 29 cm, approx. 50 b/w illus., Rus. More
Marina Borisova : painting, drawings / Marina Borisova : zhivopis, grafika
Sewn cl. This catalogue of paintings from the 1980s and 90s by an artist in the Ural Mt. region of Russia reveals an artist who combines her mastery of traditional realistic painting techniques with unusual color choices and a nontraditional tone sometimes naive sometimes ironic. Her portraits and landscapes convey..... More
Modigliani v Fontannom dome
St. Petersburg: Muzei Anny Akhmatovoi. pb. More
Mosty, plotiny, kaskady / Bridges, Dams, Cascades [of Pavlovsk palace and park ensemble]; , ,
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. Saddle-stitched. The park around Pavlovsk Palace has almost as architectural and design masterpieces on a par with those of the palace itself, which is not surprising as the same great Western European and Russian architects and designers worked on both. In this compact but informative survey..... More
Muzeul National de Istorie a Moldovei / National Museum of History of Moldova / Natsional'nyi muzei istorii Moldovy
Chisinau: Casa Editorial / Pechatnyi dom, 2013. Sewn Cloth. Approximately fifty plates on the masterpieces of the collection — Kashan pottery from the Golden Hoard, Bessarabian costume and jewelry, icon-painting, ancient metalwork (Scythian and Greek) — precede a long section on the history of the museum and on its events..... More
Na svoe meste: Anatolii Belkin (In its place: Antolii Belkin)
St. Petersburg: ? 2018. Sewn cl. These staged photos by an artist who has been a major figure in Leningrad/St. Petersburg art for several decades are caricatures of Soviet types. Based on a gallery exhibition, the catalogue publishes both Belkin's photographs and the drawings he used to stage the scenes..... More
Narodnaia kartinka XVIII – nachala XIX veka (Popular prints of the 18th and 19th century)
St. Petersburg. Sewn cl. More
Narodnoe iskusstvo: materialy i issledovaniia, vypusk IV. K 75-letiiu otdela narodnogo iskusstva v Russkom muzee (Folk art: works and research. [Published on the occasion of] the 75th Anniversary of the Folk Art Department at the Russian Museum))
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn pb. Painting on the objects that filled the peasant's home, such as distaffs, cradles, and cupboards; vessels from birch bark; carved wooden toys expressing Tsar Nicholas I's policy of "Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality"; methods of lace-making and embroidery, and wooden eighteenth-century statuary of saints..... More
Nauchno-analiticheskii biulleten’ Fonda K. S. Malevich. Nol’-desiat’ 0.10, noiabr’ 2001 / Analytical Information Bulletin of the Malevich Foundation. Zero-ten 0.10, November 2001
Moscow: Malevich Foundation, 2001. Sewn pb. This issue of the ambitious and scholarly but not long lasting journal of the Malevich Foundation publishes articles on varied subjects relating to the avant-garde such as the last futurist exhibition Zero-Ten of 1915, Larionov’s paintings that show his theory of rayism, private collections..... More
Pamiatniki monumental'nogo iskusstva / Memorials of Monumental Art [of Pavlovsk palace and park ensemble]
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2017. Saddle-stitched. Sculpture, gateways, ruins, columns, and colonnades commemorating events and people connected with the Russian imperial residence at Pavlovsk. With a fold out map of the parks and gardens showing relative placement of the works. 25 p., 21 x 15 cm, approx. 20 color and b/w..... More
Pavil'ony / Pavilions [of Pavlovsk palace and park ensemble]
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2016. The genius of the Russian imperial family was finding artistic talent to carry their architectural projects wherever they could: architects and designers from Scotland, Italy, France and Russia designed the outbuildings of Pavlovsk Palace ensemble, and they are all gems of neoclassical and romantic architecture. Working..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXI / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXI; LXXI
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. Sewn pb. These are more than annual volumes chronicling the scholarship and collecting of a great museum - they are handsomely produced art books with sewn bindings and abundant high-quality illustrations. The main sections touch on varied themes in world art and collecting history: studies of..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXII / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXII; LXXII
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn pb. Reports of the Hermitage publish research of its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, and articles on acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and the..... More
Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXIV / Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXIV; LXXIV
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. Reports of the Hermitage publish research done by its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works. Broader articles present acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and..... More
Sbornik dokladov konferentsii "Fotografii a v muzee" [Fotografiia puteshestviia, 2022] (Collection of Talks of a Conference “Photography in Museums” [Travel phhotography, 2022])
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2022. pb. The State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosfoto, specializing in the history of photography, initiated a conference in 2012 on the topic “Photography in Museums." In this, the tenth annual issue, authors characterize materials, the time period, and the predominant subject matter of works in various..... More
Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodno konferent s ii "Fotografii a v muzee", 2-4 okti a bri a 2012 g. (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums”, 2 – 4 October 2012)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2012. pb. As part of a national program to study and preserve collections of photographs in Russian archives, museums, and libraries, Rosfoto, the state exhibition center for photography in St. Petersburg, organized a conference in 2012 entitled “Photography in Museums.” Over twenty authors presented their research sizing..... More
Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii "Fotografii a v muzee", 15 – 18 aprelia 2014 g., Sankt-Peterburg (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums”, 15 – 18 April 2014, , St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2014. pb. Research articles cover such topics as the photo collections of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Peterhof Palace Museum-Preserve; photos taken during the trade expedition to China in the 1870s; attribiton of archival photographs on the military; phtos in the Museum if the Battle of Stalingrad;..... More
Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii "Fotografii a v muzee", 21-23 maia 2013 g., g. Sankt-Peterburg (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums”, 21 – 23 May 2013, St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2013. pb. As part of a national program to study and preserve collections of photographs in archives, museums, and libraries around Russia, the State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosfoto, specializing in the history of photography, initiated a conference in 2013 continuing the theme of its 2012 conference..... More
Sbornik dokladov mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii “Fotografiia v muzee” 19 – 22 maia 2015 g. (Collection of Talks of an International Conference “Photography in Museums,” 19 – 22 maia 2015 g.)
St. Petersburg: Rosfoto, 2015. pb. Rosphoto (Rosfoto) the exhibition and research center for Russian photography has published another volume in its series identifying and describing photographic collections around Russia. In this edition published on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II many chapters examine collections of war..... More
Serebrianyi vek: Oranienbaum. Dvortsy i parki: al'bom-putevoditel' (Silver Age Oranienbaum: Palaes and Parks)
St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg University, 2010. This book uses old post cards and archival photos to present the main structures of the architectural ensemble first commissioned during Peter's the Great's reign by Alexander Menshikov. After Menshikov's fall from favor the palace ensemble became part of the imperial family's property. All..... More