Moscow: Iskusstvo XXI vek, 2017 (2nd ed. enlarged and corrected). Sewn cl. The author's extensive research into the work of Russian artists of the first wave of emigration - that occasioned by the Bolshevik revolution and civil war - covers artists who began their careers in Russia but ended up..... 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 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
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. This is the first publication of the written works of Lev Bakst, a major figure in Russia's Silver Age as a painter associated with the World of Art, designer of theater sets and costumes, book illustrator and fashion designer. His style is well crafted and..... 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
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 his book..... 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 curtains. His work is another reminder of how Western European..... 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 1917 revolution seemed to entail radical change in all spheres, and the theme of this catalogue is how experimental ideas played out in the tangible aspects of the theater—costumes and sets— and in fashion design for clothing that would suit the new era..... 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
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
Moscow: Muzei dekorativno-prikladnogo i narodnogo iskusstva, 2009. Pb. Costumes, posters, and photographs from a Moscow exhibition give glimpses of the glory of Russian ballet as brought to Paris by the great impresario Sergei Diagilev, who introduced Parisians and the West to the brilliance of Russian music, dance, and design. An..... 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: Muzei Bakhrushina, 2018. Sewn pb. 224 p., 22 cm. WHERE IS BOOK WHERE IS BOOK WHERE IS BOOK NEED WRITEUP NEED WRITEUP WHERE IS BOOK WHERE IS BOOK WHERE IS BOOK NEED WRITEUP NEED WRITEUP WHERE IS BOOK WHERE IS BOOK WHERE IS BOOK NEED WRITEUP NEED WRITEUP WHERE IS BOOK..... More
Moscow: Sev pal, 2015. sewn cl. Searching for national identity: neo-Russian style; architecture of St. Petersburg and Moscow: aesthetic refinements and engineering innovations; transforming the architectural style of provincial towns; new styles at country estates and dachas; industrial design; painting and sculpture: movements, exhibitions; icon-painting traditions; photography as an art;..... More