Textiles
Liudmila Maiakovskaia
Moscow: Muz Maiakovskogo, 2010. sewn pb. Besides the insights into his life that Liudmila Maiakovskii's relationship with her brother provides, she was an artist and designer herself. As the photographs from the early twentieth century reveal, she was among the first women to make a career of design — in..... More
V poiskakh sovremennogo stilia: leningradskii opyt. Vtoraia polovina 1950-kh – seredina 1960-kh godov (In search of a contemporary style: the Leningrad experiment of the late 50s and early 60s)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2019. Sewn cl. The second half of the twentieth century in the Soviet Union has receded far enough in time for historians of art to recognize its most characteristic achievements. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Russian Museum publishes works from ten museums and private..... More
Istoriia rossiiskogo videoarta, tom 1 / History of Russian video art, vol. 1
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2007. Sewn pb. A substantive essay on how video art arose in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and then evolved in the 1990s and early 2000s is followed by entries an individual artists and their experiments in video art. Chapter titles: video as modernist..... 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
Kovrotkachestvo narodov Rossiiskoi imperii (Carpet weaving by peoples of the Russian Empire)
Vostochnoe literatura, 2007. sewn cl. The author covers the main ethnographic regions into which the Russian Empire is conventionally divided: Central Asia, Caucasus, Ukraine and Russia. She proposes new theories of the origins of carpet weaving not as usually thought among strictly nomadic peoples. She finds its roots in Iranian..... More
Drevnerusskoe shit'e v sobranii Novgorodskogo muzeia / Old Russian Embroidery from the Collection of the Novgorod Museum
Novgorod: Novgorodskii muzei-zapovednik, 2002. pb. These highlights of a collection of textile works for liturgical use — shrouds, palls, altar cloths, icon covers, and vestments — demonstrate that the embroiderers were as expressive and ingenious in depicting biblical and hagiographical scenes as were Russian icon- and fresco-painters. 32 p., 21..... More
Bliki na kovre. Kovry i zhivopis’ Valeriia Sakhatova (Flashes on a carpet: carpets and paintings by Valerii Sakhatov)
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani / Muzei Vostoka, 2014. Sewn pb. The artist whose paintings are published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka) has a continually evolving style from compositions of colors and forms to vaguely representational depictions of figures and places. Inspired by..... More
Risunki dlia schetnoi vyshivki: skhemy XIX veka v sobranii Istoricheskogo muzeia (Drawings for embroidery: 19-century patterns in the collection of the Historical Museum)
Moscow: Gos Istoricheskii muzei (GIM), 2018. Sewn pb. Works from London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and various Russian sources illustrate the tastes and interests of a homey and widespread form of applied and decorative art. This first scholarly catalogue of the Historical Museum’s collection is nicely produced with large color plates..... More
Devianosto deviat' imen Vsevyshnego: Klassicheskoe iskusstvo islamskogo mira IX – XIX vekov / Ninety-Nine Names of God: Classical Art of Islamic World from IX to XIX Centuries
Moscow: Fond Mardzhani, 2013. Sewn cl. The works published in this catalogue of an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow come from an extraordinary private collection of Islamic art formed in Russia: the Mardjani Foundation. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts juxtaposes works from its collection..... More
Turkmenskie kovry / Turkmen Carpets
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2001. sewn cl. The collection of the Russian Museum owes its rich sampling of works from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century to the inspired collecting of Nikolai Burdunov and the prerevolutionary collection of the Handicraft Museum in St. Petersburg, much of which passed to the..... More
Iskusstvo Velikogo Novgoroda: epokhi sviatitelia Makariia (The Art of Great Novgorod in the period of Makarius)
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. Sixteen museums, private collections, and archives contributed to this glorious Russian Museum exhibition on the last heyday of Novgorod's art. The enlightened and powerful churchman of the first half of the sixteenth century through church commissions spurred grand projects of printing and book publication, icon-painting..... More
Dekorativno-prikladnoe iskusstvo narodov Kavkaza XVIII – XX vv. (Decorative and Applied Arts of Caucasian Peoples, 18th – 20th c.)
Moscow: Muz Vostoka, 2009. pb. The author surveys a complex subject in a concise manner in an attempt to give an integrated picture of the arts of the peoples of the Caucasus. The basis of her study is the collection of the State Museum of Arts of Asian Peoples in..... More
Uzornoe tkachestvo narodov Kryma v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo muzeiia Vostoka (Pattern weaving of Crimean peoples at the State Museum of Oriental Art)
Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2013. Sewn pb. This catalogue publishes forms of textile art that have been extinct since the indigenous populations of Crimea were expelled by Stalin in 1944. The different coasts of Crimea and the inland steppe areas developed their own distinct traditions. Content: collections of Crimean weaving; outline..... More
The Hermitage Encyclopedia of Textiles. Conservation. Exhibition Catalogue / Ermitazhnaia entsiklopediia tekstilia. Restavratsiia. Katalog vystavki
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2017. Sewn pb. This is the kind of exhibition and catalogue that only the Hermitage could do - 387 pages of detailed commentary and profuse illustrations on textiles of all kinds (hence "encyclopedia"), from the obvious such as ecclesiastical vestments (Christian and Buddhist), military uniforms, and dress..... More
"Etnodzhins". Kollektsiia "narodnoi dzhinsy" iz sobraniia Rossiiskogo etnograficheskogo muzeia
Moscow: Severnyi Palomnik, 2016. Sewn pb. Taking a simple pragmatic material and ornamenting according to local taste has given the republics of the former Soviet Union a new kind of jeans: solid and durable, but also colorful and distinct to the culture. Collection catalogue of the Russian Ethnographic Museum. The..... More
Gosudarstvennyi muzei-zapovednik Pavlovsk: Polnyi katalog kollektsii, tom IV, Tkani, vypusk 2, dekorativnye vyshivki (State Museum- Preserve Pavlovsk: Complete Catalogue of the Collections, vol. IV, Textiles, vypusk 2, Decorative Embroidery)
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2012. sewn pb. The museum at Pavlovsk, bound as it is by the dimensions of the eighteenth-century palace, can keep only a small part of its collections on permanent display; hence the significance of the publication of complete collection catalogues that make available for researchers the museum’s..... More
Sokrovishcha Iaroslavlia XIII – nachala XX. Izdeliia iz zolota, serebra, dragotsennnykh tkanei s kamniami, zhemchugom, emaliami. Putevoditel’ po ekspozitsii (treasures of the 13th to the early 20th century. Works from gold and silver, textiles with gems, pearl and enamel: guide to the collections)
Moscow: Sev pal, 2015 (1st ed. 2009). Sewn pb. Although the word guidebook implies a list of many items with brief entries about each one, this book is more a scholarly monograph about ecclesiastical art held in the Yaroslav State Historical, Architectural, and Art Museum-Preserve. Especially useful are the abundant..... More
Belorusskii narodnyi tekstil': khudozhestvennye osnovy, vzaimosviazi, novatsii (Belorussian folk textiles: artistic foundations, parallels, innovations)
Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, 2013. Sewn cl. The knowledge, skills, and technologies to produce traditional women's clothing in Eastern Slavic society together with the aesthetic sense and awareness of mythological and folk imagery are the themes of this richly illustrated scholarly monograph. The role of folk costume in the twentieth century..... More
Riazanskaia vyshivka iz kollektsii RIAMZ [Riazanskogo istoriko-arkhitekturnogo muzeia zapovednika](Riazan embroidery from the collection of the Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve)
Riazan: Riazan Historical and Architectural Museum Preserve, 2016. Pb. Focusing on the Riazan school as represented in the museum’s collection, the author outlines methods of embroidering, sources of fabrics, conventional patterns, the meaning of embroidered designs in folk lore and everyday peasant culture. 71 p., approx. 60 color and b/w..... More
Liturgiini pokrovy na chashu i dyskos iz katalogom tvoriv iz figuratyvnymy zobrazhenniamy zi zbirky Natsional’nogo muzeiu u L’vovi imeni Andreia Sheptyts’kogo (Liturgical Cloths for Chalice and Paten from the Collection of the Andrei Sheptytskyi National Museum, L’viv)
Lviv: Maister knig, 2013. Sewn cl. The cloths used to cover the chalice, the paten, or both together were ornately designed: the varying colors from deep reds and brilliant greens to subdued blues and warm browns, the traditional compositions enlivened by regional distinctions, and the consummate skill of the artists..... More
Katalog nabivnykh tkane XIII-XIX vekov sobranii a Roberta Forrera (Catalogue of prints 13th – 19th centuries in the collection of Robert Forrer)
Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2010. sewn cl. The works catalogued here entered the Russian State Library (State Lenin Library at that time) as trophy art taken by Soviet forces from the German Museum of the Book in Leipzig. Since it is only recently that Russian Federation policy "On Displaced Cultural Valuables"..... More
Russkoe tserkovnoe shit'e XVII–XXI vv. v kollektsii GMIR / 17th–21st century Russian Church Embroidery from the Collection of the State Museum of the History of Religion
St. Petersburg: Muzei istorii religii, 2017. Sewn pb. These works of church embroidery run the gamut from all forms of vestments, miters, coverings for icons, shrouds, aers, and icons. The pictorial icons are extraordinary for the lifelike expressions embroiders imparted to the faces. Influenced by Western European embroidery, an independent..... More
Peterburgskaia imperatorskaia shpalernaia manufaktura: k 300-letiiu osnovaniia (Saint Petersburg Imperial Tapestry Manufactory: [published] to mark 300 years since its foundation)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Sewn pb. Like many arts brought to Russia from Western Europe at the initiative of Peter the Great tapestry-making depended in its first years on foreign masters. Training and then collaborating with Russian craftsmen, they built an independent art tradition and by the mid eighteenth century..... More