Moscow: Teatral'nyi muzei Bakhrushina, 2015. Sewn cl. Rich in documentation — almost four hundred illustrations, twenty pages of biographical sketches, and a chronology of theater productions from 1902 to 1939 — this monograph on the brilliant stage director sent to his death in the Gulag in the late 1930s covers..... More
Moscow: Muzei Shchuseva / Kuchkovo pole, 2017. Sewn cl. Over a dozen museums contributed works to the exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, of which this is the catalogue. A unexampled wealth of visual material — models, examples of set design and costume, architectural plans and drawings, photographs —..... More
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
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. Trained in the 1920s during the heyday of the avant-garde, Tyshler could work in a variety of experimental styles. In the Stalinist years he turned to graphic and theater art as a safer sphere to work in than painting for exhibition, but in the..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia / Skanrus, 2014. Sewn cl. This is the catalogue of an exhibition unfolds the career of an artist whose costume and set designs distinguished the performances of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater for several decades. Published are works of Fedorovskii from collections at the Bakhrushin Theater Museum, the Bolshoi..... More
St. Petersburg: Nestor-istoriia, 2009. sewn cl. Bakst used motifs from antiquity in many of his stage and costume designs. The author shows how he imitated and adapted classical models. 204 p., 21 cm., approx. 100 color and b/w illus., Rus. More
Moscow: Buksmart, 2016. Sewn pb. The sultry and brilliant costumes designed by Bakst were as vivid a part of the Ballets russes as the dancing, choreography, and music. This study of Bakst's work in Paris for Diagilev and the Ballets russes glistens with examples of his work from the 1910s..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2019. Sewn pb. From Mikhail Larionov’s design for a 1916 ballet “Russian Fairy Tales” and Malevch's costumes for "Victory over the Sun" to the designs for Dmitrii Shostakovich’s 1934 opera “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,” the last tsarist years, the revolutionary period..... More
Moscow: Iskusstvo XXI vek, 2012. sewn cl. Letters to artists such as Alexander Benois, Valentin Serov, and Igor Grabar', to theater producers and actors like Vsevolod Meierkhold and Vera Kommisarzhevskaia, evoke the milieu of Russian artistic life in the early twentieth century. 360 p., 21 cm., approx. 25 color and..... More
Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2015. sewn pb. Iakulov was a major figure in the artistic and theatrical world of Moscow, Paris and Yerevan during the creative explosion of the early twentieth century. He conceived of an original approach to painting (multicolored suns, the simultaneity of movement), and as a designer he..... More
St. Petersburg: KGallery, 2017. Sewn cl. This gallery exhibition catalogue on a leading artist of the early twentieth century draws together paintings, drawings, posters, theater programs, and book plates from various museums, galleries, and private collections in Russia, France and the United States. Five substantive articles unfold the range of..... More
St. Petersburg: Pavlovsk, 2001. Saddle-stitched. This concise exhibition catalogue displays the drawings that Gonzaga did for many parts of Pavlovsk Palace in the second half of the eighteenth century. Gonzaga excelled at grand designs for buildings and intimate ones for interior elements such as window curtains (his stage curtain for..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2018. Sewn pb. The Bolshoi Theater has its own museum of collections of visual documents on every aspect of dance and opera history. The richest chapters — over 250 illustrations — are those on theater design and costume. Chaliapin hooded in black as Mephistopheles, Yurii Pimenov's drawing..... More
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St. Petersburg: Rossiiskii institut istorii iskusstv, 2013. sewn pb. Ten museums, theaters, and the artist's family contributed set and costume designs to this catalogue of works by a major artist of the twentieth-century Soviet theater. In these works of the mid 1940s to the early 1980s Dorrer shows that he..... More
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole, 2017. Sewn cl. This monograph on Nikolai Remizov (Nicolas Remisoff) tells a rare story of an Russian artist flourishing in emigration. Remizov began in the early twentieth century doing caricatures, cover illustrations for satirical journals such as Satirikon (Novyi Satirikon), and book illustrations (e.g., for Kornei Chukovskii's..... More
New York: Ukrainian Museum, 2015. sewn pb. The Ukrainian Museum in New York in cooperation with the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema Arts of Ukraine in Kyiv published this catalogue of the New York exhibition that showed that in addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad had worthy rivals as..... More
St. Petersburg: Muzei teatral'nogo i muzykal'nogo iskusstva, 2018. Sewn pb. This catalogue of the highlights of the collections of the Theater and Music History Museum publishes archival materials on the museum's work recording personalities and events in dramatic theater, opera, classical music, and ballet in over the last century and..... More
Moscow: Severnyi palomnik, 2019. Sewn pb. The authors and curators of the “the Magic of Style” (Magiia mody) organized the exhibition on which this catalogue of actual items of clothing designed in the 1920s together with illustrations from contemporary fashion publications, drawings, and photographs show the imaginative ways in which..... More
Moscow: Ad Marginem Press, 2017. Sewn cl. Eizenshtein's drawings are of interest not only as preparatory sketches for his films, but also as an independent vein of his creativity. Many of them portray figures and events from the Bible; others are risqué, and it is a wonder that he, his..... More
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Moscow: Tret'iakovskaia galereia, 2015. Sewn cl. The artist who is the subject of this Tretyakov Gallery exhibition catalogue had a short career: he died in 1911 at the age of forty-six, but in that time he created masterpieces in sundry styles and genres. He developed as an artist during a...... More
Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi institut iskusstvoznaniia, 2014. Pb. Theater in the Russian avant-garde period was daring and innovative. Preeminent was the State Meierkhol'd Theater in Moscow, where Meierkhol'd staged plays with the most creative counterparts among writers and artists (e.g., Mayakovsky and Malevich). A contemporary article by Ivan Aksenov on the theater's..... More
St. Petersburg: Evropeiskii dom, 2013. sewn cl. Nikolai was the son of the artist, critic, and organizer of the World of Art circle in Silver Age Russia. Nikolai in emigration became the chief designer of La Scala, where he stood out especially for his sets and costumes of Russian ballets..... More
Moscow: Rossiiskaia gosudarstvennyi arkhiv literatury i iskusstva, 2004. Sewn cl. The artists whose works ended up in Russia’s unique literary and artistic archive played key roles in the explosion of creativity of the late tsarist period and early Soviet periods. The catalogue by publishing works that only scholars researching in..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2016. sewn cl. Bakst was one of the major figures of the early twentieth-century artistic movement known as World of Art. His range was exceptional: he did strong portraits of great contemporaries such as Lev Tolstoi, Alexander Benois, and Sergei Diagilev, and, as this Russian Museum..... More
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2013. sewn cl. These works exhibited at the Russian Museum come from over twenty museums, galleries, and private collections. Exhibiting and publishing such a variety of works leads to a new understanding and appreciation of Golovin’s talent. Associated with the World of Art movement, Golovin worked..... More