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
Ceramics & Porcelain
Korinfskie vazy i ikh antichnye imitatsii. Katalog kollektsiia (Corinthian vases and their antique imitations: Catalogue of the [Hermitage] Collection)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn cl. The Hermitage collection of vases, most painted with animal and human figures at a high level of virtuosity, numbers over 700 and dates to the heyday of ceramic art in Corinth in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. The works especially black-figure ones set... More
Estestvennye metody ispol'zovannye v ekspertize proizvedenii iskusstva (Natural methods used in appraising works of art)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015 (2nd enlarged edition). Sewn pb. The author gives a systematic description of the the technical methods used in ascertaining authorship and dating of works of fine art. 219 p., 26 cm, approx. 40 color and b/w illlus., Rus. More
Pod prozrachnym l'dom glazuri: Farfor Peterburga. Katalog vystavki (Pod prozrachnym l'dom glazuri: Farfor Peterburga. Katalog vystavki (Beneath translucent glaze: St. Petersburg porcelain. Exhibition Catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2017. Sewn pb. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at Kazan publishes porcelain manufactured in tsarist St. Petersburg, Soviet Leningrad, and post-Soviet St. Petersburg. The works of the tsarist period reflected artistic styles of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, neoclassical, empire, and Russian revival, for example... More
Podnesenie k Rozhdestvu: Vdokhnovlennye Ermitazhem (Christmas Gift: Inspired by the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. sewn pb. The series of annual Hermitage exhibitions published at year's end stems from a tradition of the tsarist period according to which the Imperial Porcelain Factory would make special works to be presented at Christmas time to the tsar. The theme of the 2014 exhibition... More
Keramika Sogda V – VII vekov kak istoriko-kul’turnyi pamiatnik (k metodike izucheniia keramicheskikh kompleksov) (Sogdian Pottery of the 5th– 7th c. as a Historical and Cultural Phenomenon [On the Methods of Study of Pottery])
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2012. sewn cl. The excavations in the late 1950s and early 1960s led by the author, the preeminent researcher in this area of Central Asia, occasioned discoveries in several spheres: first, Marshak defined the borders and contours of the Sogdian town of Penjikent in Central Asia; second... More
Zapadnoevropeiskoe prikladnoe iskusstvo XVI–XVIII vekov iz sobraniia Ermitazha (Western European Applied Arts from the 16th to the 18th c. from the Collection of the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 1996. Sewn pb. The Hermitage honored the 100th anniversary of the opening of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz’s museum-school with this exhibition of furniture, tapestries, majolica, porcelain, glass, textiles, embroidery, and jewelry. Many of these works were originally brought to St. Petersburg by Stieglitz and his collector-agents for..... More
Imperatorskii farfor: vremen sviazuiushchaia nit': k 270-letiiu Imperatorskogo farforovogo zavoda (Imperial porcelain: The thread uniting time: [published on the occasion of] the 270th anniversary of the Imperial Porcelain Factory)
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe selo, 2014. The concise catalogue of an exhibition at Tsarskoe Selo Museum-Preserve identifies connections between porcelain production in the tsarist period, the Soviet period and the current time. The works of the late nineteenth century show historicist styles; in recent years artists and craftsmen at the Lomonosov... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom VII, Farfor, vypusk 1, Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, konets XVIII – nachalo XX veka (Pavlovsk State Museum-Preserve: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. VII, Porcelain, vypusk 1, The Imperial Porcelain Factory , 18th to the Early 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2009. sewn pb. Services for state ceremonies, vases and sculptural figurines that form an essential part of the palace's interiors, and pieces used quotidianly by the Russian imperial family, such as Empress Maria Fedorovna's toiletry articles, are here beautifully illustrated and described in detail. The authors identify... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom VII, Farfor, vypusk 2, Farfor i fians: Chastnye zavody Rossii, kazennyi Kievo-vezhigorskii zavod, konets XVIII–nachalo XX veka (State Museum-Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. VII, Porcelain, vypusk 2, Porcelain and faience: private Russian factories, State Kiev-Vezhigorsk factory, late 18th c to early 20th c.)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2014. sewn pb. The author gives a general chronological servey of porcelain production in Russia from the second half of the eighteenth century and then examines some of the most significant producers such as Nikolai Iusupov in the early nineteenth century, the Kornilov Brothers in the mid... More
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Chai, vino, poeziia (Tea, wine, poetry [in the visual culture of Asia])
Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2015. sewn pb. The importance of drinking wine and tea in not only the Far East, but also in the Caucasus and Central Asia comes forth vividly in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Arts of Asian Peoples (Museum of the Orient, Muzei... More
Sovetskii farfor 1920 - 1930-kh Godov v chastnykh sobraniiakh Sankt-Peterburga (Soviet porcelain of the 1920s and 1930s from private collections in St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: KGallery? n.d. Sewn cl. These works, mainly sculptural figurines and services, are products of the preeminent porcelain factory in Russia, the successor of the Imperial Porcelain Factory known in the early 1920s as the State Porcelain Factory and after 1924 as the Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory. The first... More
Meisen – Tsarskomu Selu. 300x300x300 (Meissen to Tsarskoe Selo. 300x300x300)
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe selo, 2010. In 2010, 300 items of Meissen porcelain from the private collection of Kurt Krockenberger (Remshalden-Granbach, Germany) were displayed in the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo. The exhibition had a symbolic significance as its opening coincided with both the 300th anniversary of Europe’s first porcelain factory... More
Kuritel’nye trubki, XVIII – nachalo XX vekov: fantaziia i kurez v melkoi plastiki (Pipes for Smoking, 16th to the Early 20th c.: Fantasy and Curio in Applied Sculpture)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. Sewn cl. In this edition in the series Collections of the Hermitage a curator of decorative arts at the Hermitage publishes a lesser known branch of applied and decorative arts: pipes for smoking. The pipes were carved and sculpted in various European countries, including Russia. They... More
Podnesenie k Rozhdestvu: “Antichnyi fason” russkogo imperatorskogo farfora vtoroi poloviny XVIII veka (Christmas gift: “Antique Style” in Russian Imperial Porcelain in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century)
2012. sewn pb., The theme of this exhibition catalogue in the Hermitage Series: A Christmas Gift (Podnesenie k Rozhdestvu) is the way in which ancient art inspired sculptors, painters and designers working in porcelain. The authors point out analogies with neoclassical styles in Western European art and include in the... More
Iz serviznykh kladovykh: ubranstvo russkogo imperatorskogo stola XVIII – nachala XX veka (From the Dinner-Service Storerooms: Decorating the Russian Imperial Table from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn cl. This is the kind of catalogue that only the Hermitage can do: it has masterpieces of German, French, English and Russian porcelain and ceramics commissioned by the Romanovs or given to them as diplomatic gifts beginning in the earliest period of European porcelain; using... More
Zarubezhny farfor i keramika IV veka do nashei ery--pervoi chetverti XIX veka (Foreign porcelain and ceramics [4th century B.C. to the first quarter of the 19th century])
Moscow: Muzei Moskovskogo Kremlia, 2015. Sewn cl. Most works in the Kremlin collection are from Western Europe – Austria, England, Germany, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Italy, and France (German and French works are the most numerous), but there is a chapter on China. 402 p., 30 cm, approx. 450 color illus.... More
Mastatstva suverennai Belarusi = Iskusstvo suverennoi Belarusi = The Art of Sovereign Belarus
Minsk: Belarus. Entsykl. imia P. Broiki, 2016. Sewn cl. The catalogue of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus focuses on its collection of late Soviet and contemporary art. An appendix publishes recent acquisitions such as eighteenth-century icons of Western area of the Russian Empire, which show the... More
Rozhdennaia v plameni: koreiskaia keramika iz Natsional'naia muzei Korei. Katalog vystavki (Born in flames: Korean ceramics from the National Museum of Korea)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn pb. The Hermitage together with the National Museum of Korea shows the extraordinary beauty of Korean ceramics which attained aesthetic and technical brilliance as early as the twelfth century. The simplicity of form, subtle shades of green and white, and spare adornment distinguish the works... More
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture / Sport v sovetskom farfore, grafike, skul'pture
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2018. Sport became a central subject in art after the 1917 revolution. Widespread opportunities for sport meant in the workers’ state people had leisure and they had healthy ways to use it. Sport was to be enjoyed but it was also an obligation: one had to... More
Volshebnyi mir farfora iz sobraniia Natsional’ogo muzeia Respubliki Tatarstan / The Magical World of Porcelain from the Collection of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
Kazan: Zaman, 2003. Sewn cl. This catalogue of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan has porcelain from Asia — mainly China, but also Korea and Japan; Western Europe —primarily Germany, but also France, the Netherlands, and England; and from most Russian centers of porcelain production — the Imperial... More
Peterburgskii modern iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia istorii Sankt-Peterburga (St. Petersburg art nouveau from the collection of the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg)
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2012. Pb. These works of lighting, glass, furniture, stoves, porcelain and picture frames decorated the interiors of St. Petersburg fashionable class in the last years of the nineteenth and first years of the twentieth century. Though an international style called variously art nouveau, jugend stil... More
Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo Sankt-Peterburga za 300 let: Illiustrirovannaia entsiklopediia, tom 3 (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Three Hundred Years of Decorative and Applied Arts of St. Petersburg, vol. 3)
St. Petersburg: Ars, 2009. sewn cl. In this volume curators and scholars of the Hermitage Museum interweave concise histories of various branches of applied and decorative arts in St. Petersburg—gold and silverwork, ivory carving, lacquer painting, porcelain of private factories, medals—with detailed entries on individual works from the collection of..... More
Moskovskaia arkhtekturnaia keramika, konets XIX – nachalo XX veka (Moscow architectural ceramics of the late 19th and early 20th c.)
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia, 2014. sewn cl. In this comparative study the author begins with a look at the use of ceramics for ornamenting buildings and interiors in such cities as Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Budapest. She then focuses on its flourishing in the architecture and interior design at the turn... More
Arabia: Ceramics, Art, Industry
Helsinki: Designmuseo, 2009. Finnish designers played a major part in modern design and architecture. Reminiscent of Irish playwrights and English literature, the Finns contributed a disproportionately large number of great works. The Design Museum in Helsinki traces here the history of the ceramics factory opened in Helsinki in 1873. Arabia... More