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
Sculpture
The books in this section publish works by Russian sculptors and works by Western European artists brought to Russia by such collectors as Peter the Great. The church was the main patron of medieval art; it favored icon-painting and frescoes, and there are relatively few works of sculpture in the medieval period. Beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century, however, a school of Russian sculpture took root; Western European sculptors working in Russia (e.g., J. D. Rachette) taught at the Academy of Arts, and soon native Russians mastered the language of stone and metal: Fedot Shubin and Ivan Martos, for example, sculpted religious images and worldly ones on a level of the best European sculptural art of the late eighteenth century. Most sculptors received their training at the Academy and refined their skills on study trips to Western Europe, most often to Italy. Their works form part of a European revival of sculpture in the second half of the eighteenth century. Works of sculpture became essential elements of the grand public spaces of St. Petersburg from Falconet’s Bronze Horseman to Petr Klodt’s Horse Trainers on Anichkov Bridge. In this section readers will find books on individual sculptors of the tsarist and Soviet periods (e.g., Shubin, Martos, Fedor Tolstoi, Ivan Prokof’ev, Maria Dillon, Vera Mukhina), catalogues of collections (e.g., Pavlovsk Palace-Museum: Complete Catalogue of the Collections: vol. III, Sculpture, book 1), and surveys of different periods.
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
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
Zabytye kamni: Evreiskie nadgrobiia v Moldove / Forgotten Stones: Jewish Tombstones in Moldova
2000. Sewn cl. D. N. Goberman A well illustrated monograph containing unprecedented research on Jewish art, history, and visual culture, this book covers an unusual aspect in the legacy of Jewish art in Eastern Europe: The stone carvings on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century tombstones show a raw beauty that evokes..... More
Konnaia skul'ptura Moskvy (Equestrian sculpture in Moscow)
St. Petersburg: Rostok, 2014. sewn cl. The authors find that the horse figures in sculptural works on squares, streets, and the façades of buildings from various periods in Moscow's history. From monumental sculptures occupying prominent places in architectural ensembles by such major artists as P. N. Klodt to anonymous reliefs..... More
Dzhordzh Sigal: Retrospektiva (George Segal: Retrospective)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2002. Sewn pb. Publishing works in painting and sculpture done between 1955 and 1999, this Hermitage exhibition catalogue gives a sense of the changing interests of the late American artist and his ability to create in several genres. 128 pp., 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 ins., 106..... More
Istoriia russkogo iskusstva, tom 1. Iskusstvo Kievskoi Rusi IX – pervoi chetverti XII veka (History of Russian Art, vol. 1, The Art of Kievan Rus’ from the 9th c. through the First Quarter of the 12th c.)
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2007. sewn cl. This is the first volume of a large-scale research project on the history of Russian art. It offers an exhaustive account of works of art and architecture which appeared in Rus’ after the adoption of Christianity in the late tenth century. The focus is..... More
Istoriia russkogo iskusstva, tom 2.1. Iskusstvo 20–60-kh godov XII veka (History of Russian Art, vol. 2, part 1. Art of the 1120s to the 1160s)
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2012. sewn cl. Three main chapters deal with the different manifestations of artistic expression in the early Russian confederation centered around Kyiv: architecture, painting, and ornament of various kinds (e.g., manuscripts, metalwork, reliefs). The experience of recent decades broadened scholarly methods and led to the adoption of..... More
Istoriia russkogo iskusstva, tom 2.2. Iskusstvo vtoroi poloviny XII veka (History of Russian Art, vol. 2, part 2. Art of the second half of the twelfth century)
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2015. sewn cl. Authors elaborate on the key artistic events of the period: forming an independent local style of building spinning out of Byzantine tradition; designing new forms and kinds of church architecture; diverging of artistic styles in different areas such as Novgorod, Galich, and Vladimir, the..... More
Deti bogov : antichnye geroi v drevnem i novom iskusstve (Children of the gods: ancient heros in ancient and modern art)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2009. sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition in Kazan has a double focus: first, ancient art — cameos, vase-painting, sculpture — depicting mythological figures; second, European art of the fifteenth to the eighteenth century in which artists of the Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical periods draw..... More
Pamiatniki voinskoi slavy Peterburga (War monuments in St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Paritet, 2010. sewn cl. 396 p., 22 cm, approx. 300 b/w illus., Rus. More
Skul'ptor Mikhail Dronov (The sculptor Mikhail Dronov)
Moscow: Skanrus / Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2016. Sewn pb. The ability to work in bronze, stone, and wood distinguishes Dronov as belonging to a class of sculptors who have mastered traditional materials and built on the work of their predecessors. He differs from traditional sculpture in the tone of irony that..... More
Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo: ideia i obraz: opyty izuchenii a vizantiiskogo i drevnerusskogo iskusstva: materialy Mezhdunarodno nauchnoi konferentsi 1-2 noiabria 2005 goda (Russian Medieval Art: Idea and Image, Studies in Byzantine and Russian Medieval Art: Materials of the International Symposium, November 1–2, 2005)
Moscow: Sev Pal, 2009. sewn cl. The attention that the late medieval period has received from scholars in recent years has led to many discoveries and shifts of emphasis in the history of Eastern Orthodox art. Rethinking of ideals and new periodization has ended the pigeonholing of periods as ones..... More
Mirmekiiskii sarkofag v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo rmitazha
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn pb. Circa A.D. 200, this work of ancient sculpture was found at excavations organized by the Hermitage in the Crimea. The fine sculpture depicts scenes from the life of Achilles, and the animal imagery is especially vivid and well preserved. 47 pages, 25 cm, approx..... More
Opyt sokhraneniia kul'turnogo nasledia: problemy restavratsii kamnia (Experiments in preserving cultural heritage: problems of stone restoration)
St. Petersburg: Petergof / Astereon, 2014. sewn pb. 325 p. + pls., approx. 120 color illus., Rus. with summary and authors' names in Italian. Series: Preserving cultural heritage in the 21st c. (Problemy sokhraneniia kul'turnogo naslediia. XXI vek). More
Novyi muzei: sobranie Aslana Chekhoeva (Novyi muzei: Aslan Chkhoeva's collection)
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn pb. The post-Soviet period has seen a new phenomenon in Russian art: founding museums based on private collections. For seventy years in the communist regime building individual wealth was taboo, and art collecting impracticable. In the 1990s and 2000s getting resources sufficient to collect..... More
Siluety sovremennykh khudozhnikov (Sketches of contemporary artists)
St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh, 2003. Pb. The author is curator of contemporary art (Iskusstvo noveishikh tendentsii) at the State Russian Museum. He has initiated and written on most exhibitions of Russian and Western European contemporary and has had personal acquaintance with many Soviet and Russian artists of the last few..... More
"Obitaemye peizazhi" Garifa Basyrova / The "Inhabited Landscapes" of Garif Basyrov
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts consists of drawings, prints, and sculptures by the late Soviet-Russian artist, whose unconventional human figures in otherworldly places are not science fiction but as he put it, “in general I am..... More
Dmitry Kaminker: Sculpture
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn cl. In this catalogue of an exhibition at the Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum Kaminker uses traditional materials in such works as "The Prodigal Son" from wood and "Ulysses and the Siren" from bronze and shows his consummate mastery of the art. In..... More
Viktoriia Kal’vatone: sud’ba odnogo shedevra (The Calvatone Victory: Fate of a Masterpiece)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. German, Italian, and Russian scholars collaborated on this catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage about a work of Roman sculpture dating to the second century A.D., which was found in Lombardy in 1836 and soon thereafter acquired by the Ancient Collection of State..... More
Sovremennoe iskusstvo Tatarstana / The Modern Art of Tatarstan
Kazan: Tatarskoe knizhnoe izdatel'stvo, 2005. Sewn cl. This catalogue publishes paintings by artists working in Kazan' and other cities of the Tatar Republic during the late Soviet period and early post-Soviet period. As a group they defy categorization. In their substantive introduction, the authors point out that the Tatar population..... More
Kamennaia simfoniia Peterburga (Stone symphony of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Nevskii rakurs, 2010. sewn cl. The author researches the architecture and interior design of St. Petersburg buildings and ensembles from the point of view of their materials, predominantly stone including ornamental stones quarried in the Urals and semiprecious gems used in decorative arts. Her work is based on..... More
Aleksandr Matveev i ego shkola (Aleksandr Matveev and His School)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. Sewn cl. In his works done before 1917 Matveev drew from varied springs of creativity: the imprecise texture of his sculpture is impressionistic, and he enriches his works with an ambiguity like that of symbolist works in other genres. After the revolution he took up..... More
Ivan Martos: Izvestnyi i neizvestnyi. Portret v tvorchestve skul’ptora: k 250-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia (Ivan Martos: Known and Unknown. A Portrait of the Sculptor in His Works [on the Occasion of] the 200th Anniversary of His Birth)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2005. Sewn cl. The pieces in this Russian Museum exhibition catalogue, including some only recently attributed to Martos, demonstrate that the sculptor (1754–1823) famed for the dignity and grandeur of his sepulchral monuments and historical statuary (e.g., Minin and Pozharskii on Red Square) was also adept..... More
Paolo Trubetskoi: k 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia (Paolo Trubetskoi: /published on the occasion of/ the 150th anniversary of his birth)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sewn cl. Paolo Trubetskoi was born in Italy, the son of an Russian diplomat serving in Florence. He received his training as a sculptor in Milan, where he opened a studio in 1885. His sculptural style influenced by expressionism and impressionism was controversial in Russia..... More