Bronze Horseman imports books that publish collections of lacquer boxes, painted trays, wooden toys, embroidered costume, lace, painted furniture and utensils (e.g., distaffs), popular prints, and other forms of Russian folk art. In such a large country, independent regional forms naturally arose and are still being studied. Scholars at Russian museums publish their research on folk art for its own aesthetic interest and for its relation to other branches of art such as icon-painting and the Russian avant-garde of the early twentieth century. Natalia Goncharova thought that Russian folk painting was akin to forms of cubism, which to others seemed a discovery of Picasso and Braque, and Kandinsky living abroad would write to his friends in Russia imploring them to send him lubki, popular prints characterized by a naïve folk style of forceful bold colors and simplified images. Another form of folk art, shop signs, is the theme of a beautifully illustrated monograph, Russian Painted Shop Signs and Avant-Garde Artists.
Ekaterinburg: Kvadrat, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of highlights of a provincial museum publishes rare books, photography, coins and medals, arms and armor, glass and ceramics, bronze sculpture, prints and icons. Many of the works come from private collections of the Ural Mountain region nationalized after the 1917 revolution. 111..... More
Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2005. Sewn cl. This mongoraph publishes and interprets the naive and spare beauty of the imagery painted on ceramic tiles known as Hutsul. Making jugs and pitchers, stoves and fireplaces, artists decorated them to brighten interiors and tell stories of hunts and romances, fishing and soldiering..... More
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii dom, 2013. sewn bp. The Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature) has surprisingly rich collections of visual that are seldom on display. Hence a catalogue reproducing popular prints illustrating tales from folklore does more than just unfold a theme: it makes accessible visual documents that in strong..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2096. Sewn cl. 94 pages, 30 cm, approx. 100 color illus, Rus. More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1995. Sewn cl. 204 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2017. Sewn cl. The region of the lower Volga River distant from the westernized imperial capital of St. Petersburg preserved traditions of adorning everyday tools, carving architectural details, sculpting religious figures, embroidering clothing, and making lace long after these traditions died out in other parts of..... More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2017. Sewn pb. This edition in the Tri kvadrat's unique series of collection catalogues of museums around Russia publishes works housed at the St. Cyril Belozersk Monastery. Among the extraordinary works of art and artifacts are painted tiles dating to the 17th through the 19th centuries; reliefs..... More
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2014. Sewn pb. The belt in the dress of various peoples from central Russia, the far north, south to the Caucasus, and east to Siberia had far more than a practical purpose: it brightened a wardrobe from ornamental colors and patterns, it also had talismanic and symbolic..... More
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2012. sewn pb. This handbook of the Russian Museum of Ethnography's collections of outer clothing is exceptionally rich and well documented: the ethnographers, researchers, scholars, and curators who built the collections emphasized from the start the importance of complete costumes, finding sources in the many regions of..... More
2008. Sewn cl. Beginning her career in the last years of the tsarist regime, the artist worked in a carpet-making studio in Skoptsi from 1910. The owner A. Semygradova and the designer E. Prybyl’s’ka recognized her talent, and the Polatava embroidery tradition shaped her sense of design: she was then..... More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2015. pb. This catalogue of a provincial museum publishes many and varied works of folk and fine art. Carved iconostasis of the seventeenth century and eighteenth-century; wooden sculpture of angels, saints, and the evangelists which show the talent of wood carvers who created strong images akin to..... More
Moscow: Tri kvadrata, 2015. pb. When the Russian town of Tot'ma became part of the northern river route it was a hub of trade between Western Europe, European Russia, and Siberia, and its merchants thrived and even sponsored trading expeditions to Russian America. The town had the wealth and patronage..... More