Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2009. Pb. Thanks to five substantive articles and the range of material - fans originating in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Russia from four museums and six private collections - this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka) in Moscow will be... More
Ivanovo: Roshcha Akademii, 2009. Pb. 115 pages, b/w and color ill., 20 cm. More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2014. sewn cl. This is an extraordinarily rich encyclopedia of costume, fine and decorative arts, folk art, and arms and armor for over one hundred nationalities inhabiting the territory of Russia. Years in the making, the volume is especially valuable for its skillful compilation of illustrations and... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia / Skanrus, 2014. Sewn cl. This is the catalogue of the first major exhibition devoted to the work of the theater artist whose creative costume and set designs not only gave a distinctive look to the Bolshoi Theater, but had an influence on other arts of the... More
Moscow: Moskovskii ob''edinennyi muzei, 2014. pb. These works from five museums show how an applied and decorative art can verge on the fine arts. Artists using various techniques (painting, engraving, embroidery, carving) to shape and illustrate sensuous materials like silk, lace, bone, and spangles. Works come from Western Europe and... More
![Metsenaty – Muzeiu. Mezhdunarodnyi blagotvoritel'nyi fond "Konstantinovskii": Kollektsiia Lobanovykh-Rostovskikh (From the patrons to the museum: Konstantine International Philanthropic Foundation: the Lobanovy-Rosovskie collection [of theater art]). E. I. Grushvitskaia.](/pictures/thumb/1415.jpg?v=1498181802)
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2015. sewn pb. Inspired by the period of theater art history when the artists designing sets and costumes became as vital to the ballet, opera, or drama as the composers, choreographers, dancers and writers, Nikita Lobanov-Rostovskii built an extraordinary collection of theater art... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012. sewn pb. These works from the Russian Museum of Ethnography’s (St. Petersburg) vast collections were exhibited at the Kazan Kremlin in 2012. They display a spectrum of artistic culture of the Tartars: costume, jewelry, embroidery, weaving, ceramics, metalwork, leather mosaic, and dolls. Especially dazzling are the... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2012. Sewn cl. Inspired by traditional Tatar and Islamic aesthetics, the foundation "Turan Art" was started outside Kazan in southern Russia to apply Tatar craftsmanship to the design of contemporary costume and accessories such as handbags and boots. Artists use gold and tambour embroidery and leather mosaic... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga, 2014. sewn pb. The ball was above all a spectacle, and the paraphernalia that was de rigueur - dresses, fans, glove cases, masks, costumes - make up a rich vein of visual culture. The works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the museum... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2012. sewn cl. This Russian Museum catalogue publishes ornamental edgings of embroidery and lace from the museum’s collection. Most were used in folk tradition to decorate the sheets of the bridal bed and became part of bride’s dowry. The works were made predominantly in various towns... More
![Aleksandr Golovin: k 150-letiiu ego rozhdeniia (Aleksandr Golovin: [Published on the occasion of the ] 150th anniversary of his birth). E. I. Strutinskaia I. M. Gofman.](/pictures/thumb/1739.jpg?v=1470077791)
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2014. Sewn cl. Published in this Tretyakov Gallery exhibition catalogue are Golovin's paintings, his work in the theater on set and costume, his designs for varied forms of decorative art — ceramics, wood carving, and majolica (e.g., facade for the Metropol Hotel in Moscow); and finally his... More
![Tlinkity: katalog kollektsii kunstkamery (Tlingits: Catalogue of the Collection of the Kunstkamera [St. Petersburg]). Iu. E. Berezkin, Iu. K. Chistov, S. A. Korsun.](/pictures/thumb/628.jpg?v=1510611118)
St. Petersburg: Kunstkamera, 2007. Beside the ethnographic interest of the Kunstkamera’s collection, the masks, helmets, weapons, woven articles, and shamans’ costumes typify the forceful imagery of primitive artifacts that was one of the wellsprings of modern art. The collection has a range from the everyday to the ornately ceremonial, and... More
St. Petersburg: ARS, 2006. sewn cl. The Hermitage collections form the basis of this reference book on Russian furniture, bronze, costume, and textiles. Since many of the works are not on permanent exhibition, they become accessible only in publication. Entries on each piece are exhaustive and proceed from years of... 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: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2015. sewn pb. In this catalogue of the Mayakovsky Museum articles of clothing, photos, paintings, drawings, and prints show that ties from the most prestigious men's store in New York, Parisian overcoats, and posh Russian astrakhan hat were all becoming to the revolutionary poet, who saw no... More
Moscow: Sev pal, 2012. sewn cl. Scholars and curators will find in this handbook a rich visual source on the history of costume and textile design in northern Europe. Distinct styles and patterns of folk art, especially as seen in women's clothing, survived in Russia well into the twentieth century... More
St. Petersburg: Tsarskoe Selo, 2014. saddle-stitched. This catalogue from a Tsarskoe Selo exhibition publishes masterpieces of the art of the fan from Western Europe —English, France, Germany, Holland, Italy — Russia, and China. Together they demonstrate the height to which the art rose: working with paints and textiles artists produced... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2015. Sewn cl. The designs of contemporary textiles and clothing in the Russian Far East stem from the patterns used in traditional costume of the region. This catalogue of works by a contemporary designer from Yakutia illustrates the richness of the patterns, the unusual and beautiful compositions... More
Moscow: Muzei Vostoka, 2015. Sewn pb. The State Museum of the Orient (Museum if the Arts of Oriental Peoples, Muzei iskusstv narodov Vostoka) created an unusual exhibition to mark the anniversary of a movie on the struggle between the new Soviet authorities and Central Asian peoples resisting their authority. Illustrating... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn cl. The drawings published in this Hermitage exhibition catalogue of an artist of Russian origin Roman Petrovich Tyrtov (in France Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff), whose artistic name was Erté, date to the teens, twenties, and thirties of the twentieth century, when the artist became a.... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1998. saddle-stitched. This brief Russian Museum catalogue summarizes the achievements of the lace-making craft of northern Russia around Vologda. The author illustrates her sketch with pieces from the late eighteenth century to the 1990s, points out the qualities of the materials, the preferred being flax, describes... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 1998. saddle-stitched. This brief Russian Museum catalogue summarizes the achievements of the lace-making craft of northern Russia around Vologda. The author illustrates her sketch with pieces from the late eighteenth century to the 1990s, points out the qualities of the materials, the preferred being flax, describes... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2011. Sewn pb. This book published in the series on those whose work is connected with the Russian Ethnographic Museum (St. Petersburg) pubishes photographs and writings relating to expeditions among the peoples of northern Russia, Finland and Norway, the Komi and Sami. The photographs of the people... More
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. saddle-stitched. The paintings, drawings, sculpture, medals, coins, glass, banners and badges published in this concise Hermitage exhibition catalogue testify to the fertility of the Maltese symbolism and iconography in Russian eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. The order's heyday during Emperor Paul's reign showed the popularity of the... More
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2008. sewn cl., The panoply of costumes of the peoples of the Russian Empire published here not only documents an extraordinary variety of nations and cultures but conveys the beauty of forms, patterns, and colors that characterized traditional clothing. Related to both folk art and fashion, these... More