Igor' Vasil'ev: fragmenty i obrazy
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.
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
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 Anniversar of the Folk Art Departement 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
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 Pavalovsk Palace ensemble, and they are all gems of neoclassical and romantic architecture. Working... More
Sevatopol'skii khudozhestvennyi muzei im. M. P Kroshitskogo
Simferopol': Orianda, 2014. sewn cl. Works from Western Europe, Russian art in the imperial period, Soviet art, and contemporary local artists of Crimea make up the survey of an art museum on the Crimean peninsula. Italian, Dutch, Flemish, French and German artists working in various genres — painting and drawing... More
Moskovskii metro: arkhitekturnyi gid (Moscow Metro: Architectural Guide)
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. Building the metro in Moscow was far more than a mass transit project: it was a grandiose plan to show that the new state, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, had entered the modern age with gusto and that ordinary people, the masses who... 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
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 (Chil
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2009. sewn cl. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition in Kazan has a double focus: ancient art — cameos, vase-painting, sculpture — depicting mythological figures and art of the fifteenth to the eighteenth century in which artists of the Renaissance, baroque and neoclassical periods draw on Roman... 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 echoing and building on the works of their great predecessors. however, the tone of irony that Dronov imparts to... More
Drevnerusskoe iskusstvo : idei a i obraz : opyty izuchenii a vizanti skogo i drevnerusskogo iskusstva : materialy Mezhdunarodno nauchno konferent s ii 1-2 noi a bri a 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 te 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: Problemy sokhraneniia kul'turnogo naslediia. XXI vek (Preserving cultural heritage in the 21st c.). ISBN INCORRECT 9785000451564. More
Novyi muzei: sobranie Aslana Chekhoeva (Novyi muzei: Aslan Chkhoeva's collection)
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn pb. This is the catalogue of a collection turned into a museum in 2009 - the first art museum in St. Petersburg founded by private initiative and open to the public. Its subject is post-World War II Soviet and contemporary art. Published here is... 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.... More
Leonid Sokov: Point of view
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2012. Sewn pb. Section titles suggest the themes of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art of paintings and sculpture by a major figure of the late Soviet and current period: Cult images of Soviet cosmos; Appropriation of the symbols... 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
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
Zabytaia Rossiia: pamiatniki i monumental’naia skul’ptura XVIII – nachala XX veka (Forgotten Russia: Monuments and Large-Scale Sculpture of the 18th to the Early 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2006. Sewn cl. These drawings, models, engravings and photos from museum archives provide the visual evidence for significant works of sculpture that for one reason or another were unrealized or lost. The authors describe pieces by fifty-one designers, architects, and sculptors who worked on these examples... More
Fedor Tolstoi 1783–1873: k 250-letiiu so dnai rozhdeniia (Fedor Tolstoi 1783–1873: [Catalogue Published on the Occasion of] the 250th anniversary of His Birth)
Rus muz, 2008. Sewn cl. Tolstoi’s aristocratic origin, training as a naval officer, and versatility of talent have perhaps distracted art historians from seeing the gist of his career: a powerful imagination and honed mastery at creating images of his age. The series of allegorical medals done for the war..... More
Kochevnik: mezhdu nebom i zemlei. Shedevry drevnikh kul'tur stepei Evrazii iz sobraniia Istoricheskogo muzeiia i proizvedeniia skul'ptora Dashi Namdakova (Nomad: between sky and earth: masterpieces of Eurasian steppe cultures from the collection of the Historical Museum and sculptural works by Dashi Namdakov)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2014. Sewn cl. Chapter titles: The great steppe: constellation of nomadic cultures: pictures of the world of the Eurasian steppe; Between East and West: art of the Eurasian nomads,ornamental compositions and artistic images in Bronze Age steppe art; archeology of traditions; World view of the... More