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 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 of the 1910s..... More
Ex thesauris: Russkii khudozhestvenny chugun iz kollektsii Tat'iany Udras (Russian art iron for the collection of Tatyana Udras)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2011. Sewn cl. This catalogue of the State Historical Museum publishes works of cast iron — candle sticks, vases, furniture, sculpture. Many are based on models and designs of earlier periods, such as medieval sytlizations, but were cast in the early twentieth century, when there..... More
Gosudarstvennaia Tret’iakovskaia galereia: Katalog Sobraniia. Zhivopis' vtoroi poloviny XIX veka, t. 4, kn. 1: A-M (State Tretyakov Gallery: Catalogue of the collection. Painting of the second half of the 19th c. vol. 4, book 1: A–M)
Moscow: Krasnaia ploshchad', 2001. Sewn cl. 527 p., 8 3/4 x 10 3/4 ins., approx. 500 color illus., Rus. More
Grigori Orlov i Gatchina : istoriia favorita imperatritsy i ego zagorodnogo imeriia
St. Petersburg: Kolo, 2010. Sewn cl. 254 p., 22 cm, Rus. 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 the former imperial capital of 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..... More
Imperatritsa Mariia Fedorovna. Zhizn' i sud'ba
St. Petersburg: Petronii, 2006. More
Iz kollektsii G.M. Levitina : zhivopis , grafika: k 110-letiiu Russkogo muzeia (From G. M. Levitin'a collection: painting and graphic art. [Published on the occasion of] the 110 anniversary of the Russian Museum)
Sewn cl. Collecting in the Soviet period took connections and charm, as substantial resources and a normal art market did not exist. Levitin, an eminent physician, managed to build a collection of works containing leading artists of the twentieth century, many of whom worked in Levitin's native Leningrad such as..... More
Khronika i plakaty Pervoi mirovoi voiny iz fondov Nauchnoi Biblioteki MGU im. M. V. Lomonosova
Moscow: DeLibri, 2014. 66 p. + 30 pls., approx. 120 color, sewn cl., 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
Narodnoe iskusstvo: materialy i issledovaniia, ypusk 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. 25 p., 21 x 15 cm, approx. 20 color and b/w illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. More
Poekhali! K 55-letiiu poleta v kosmos Iu. A. Gagarina, 1961-2016 (Let's Go! [Published on the 55th anniversary of the Yu.A. Gagarin's space flight)
Moscow: Kontakt-Kul'tura, 2016. One portfolio with a set of 22 postcards in color from various years which celebrate the USSR's success in manned space launches. 18 x 13 cm. 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. 181 pp., 30 cm, approx. 200 color and b/w illus., Rus. with summaries of each article in ENGLISH. 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
Sergei Podgorkov. Dozhdlivo, tumanno (Sergei Podgorkov: rainy, foggy)
St. Petersburg: Borey Gallery, 2013. Saddle-stitched. This brief publication stems from a gallery exhibition of photography from the last two decades of the Soviet period, the 1990s, and the early 2000s. The photographer looks at the seamy side of Soviet/post-Soviet life but simplifying his compositions and choosing unusual points of..... More
Sergey Bratkov: Ukraine
Kyiv: Pinchuk Art Center. Sewn cl. This catalogue of a gallery exhibition in Kyiv shows photographs in which the photographer captures a glimpse of incongruous or humorous everyday life. 118 p., 24 x 34 cm, approx. 60 color illus., ENGLISH. More