231pp, with 125 full colour and 130 black-and-white illustrations

Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 (Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center)

Arts & Photography

BOWLT, John E.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ of Washington Pr

Theatre has always occupied a central place in Russian artistic life, and in the early twentieth-century avant-garde painters began experimenting with the stage as a visual laboratory. Artists such as Exter, Lissitzky, Malevich, Popova, Rodchenko, Stepanova, and Tatlin revolutionized costume, set, and poster design, bringing an imaginative vitality to the state that has rarely been equaled. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition organized by Nancy Van Norman Baer of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the internationally known Soviet scholar John E. Bowlt and the staff of the Bakhrushkin State Central Theatrical Museum in Moscow. Works have been selected for their dazzling visual qualities and for the insight they provide into the turbulent history of Russian avant-garde theatre in a changing cultural climate

Theatre in Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935

California Palace of the Legion of Honor

Baer, Nancy Van Norman

IBM Gallery of Science and Art

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center

History

Thames&Hudson

Russian formalism: A collection of articles and texts in translation, (20th century studies)

Bann, Stephen

Literature & Fiction

Scottish Academic Press

. Text in Russian and English. Catalog for exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, InterCultura (Fort Worth, TX), and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. American artists: David Bates, Ross Bleckner, Christopher Brown, April Gornik, Peter Halley, Annette Lemieux, Rebecca Purdum, David Sallle, Donald Sultan, and Mark Tansey. Soviet artists: Yurii Albert, Valadimir Mironenko, Yurii Petruk, Leonid Purygin, Andrei Roiter, Sergei Shutov, Alexei Sundukov, Anatolii Zhuraviev, and Konstantin Zvezdochetov. 105 illustrations, including 71 plates in full color

10 Plus 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters (English and Russian Edition)

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Dmitri Plavinsky was born in Moscow in 1937. In 1956, he graduated from the theater department of the 1905 Institute of Art. In the sixties, Plavinsky became one of the founders and leaders of the artistic nonconformist movement in Russia. Since 1991, he has lived and worked in New York. His art works are in the collections of several American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as major museums in Russia and Europe. This book is the first comprehensive monograph of the art of Dmitri Plavinsky--paintings, graphic art, objects, and installations from 1958 to 2000. It consists of three sections. The first section is made up of essays by John E. Bowlt, who introduces the artist; Alexander Jakimovich, who positions Plavinsky's art within the historical and philosophical context of contemporary art; and Elizaveta Plavinskaya-Mikhailova, who offers an in-depth discussion of the themes and techniques in Plavinsky's graphic art. The second section is a catalog of Plavinsky's work. In the third section, the artist presents his reflections on art, culture, and travels. The catalog portion is divided into seven chapters, the last of which, "Abomination of Desolation," deals with the compulsory inculcation of atheism in the Soviet Union and, as a consequence of that governmental policy, the breakdown of moral principles and the way of life of the peasantry, as well as the destruction of the Russian village. The artistic themes range from the temporal space marked by the origins on earth of the prototypes of fish, reptiles, and other prehistoric animals to the genesis of primeval cultures, ancient and early Christian states, and the computer era of the twenty-first century, with the City of New York as its symbol. Plavinsky defines his artistic style as one of Structural Symbolism, in which the unified image of the world is broken down into sequences of symbols submerged in the layers of time: past, present, and future. Different directions of the symbols, incongruous speeds in the temporal space, layers shining one through another--all of this creates an X-ray image of Time Unified.

Dimtri Plavinsky

Jakimovich, Alexander

Individual Artists

Rizzoli

All about the Silver Age of Russian art, life and culture.

Moscow and St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life and Culture of the Russian Silver Age

History & Criticism

Vendome

The quintessential guide to Russia’s vibrant and influential Silver Age, now in paperback In this lavishly illustrated, elegantly written volume, John E. Bowltsheds new light on Russia’s Silver Age, the period of artisticrenaissance that flourished as Imperial Russia’s power waned.Much of the creative energy could be attributed to the Symbolistmovement, whose proponents sought to transcend the barriers ofbourgeois civility and whose unconventional lifestyles led somecritics to label them Decadents and Degenerates. But, as SergeiDiaghilev declared, theirs was not a moral or artistic decline, but a voyage of inner discovery and a reinvention of a national culture. Bowlt’s richly textured volume focuses not only on Russia’s best-known artists from this period—Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova, and poet Anna Akhmatova—but also on lesser-known movements of the day—experimental theater, Nikolai Kalmakov’s innovative painting, and the free dance practiced by followers of Duncan and Dalcroze. Lavishly illustrated, Moscow &amp; St. Petersburg 1900–1920 is the quintessential guide to Russia’s vibrant and influential Silver Age.
In this elegantly written narrative survey, John E. Bowlt sheds new light on Russia’s Silver Age, the period of artistic renaissance that flourished as Imperial Russia’s power waned. Much of the creative energy could be attributed to the Symbolist movement, whose proponents sought to transcend the barriers of bourgeois civility and whose unconventional lifestyles led some critics to label them Decadents and Degenerates. But, as Sergei Diaghilev declared, theirs was not a moral or artistic decline, but a voyage of inner discovery and a reinvention of a national culture.
Bowlt’s richly textured volume focuses not only on Russia’s best known artists from this period—Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Igor Stravinsky, Anna Pavlova and poet Anna Akhmatova—but also on lesser known movements of the period—experimental theater, Nikolai Kalmakov’s innovative painting, and the free dance practiced by followers of Duncan and Dalcroze.
Praise for Moscow &amp; St. Petersburg:
"This book will serve as a reference resource . . . . This ambitious English-language publication aims to cover not only every art group of the time but every aspect of the Russian culture. The pictorial layout of John Bowlt’s book renders the sheer proliferation of new ideas immediately apparent. The highly charged text charts the medley of productions, groups, and individuals, all loosely associated with the symbolist movement, that make up the vast canvas. As the leading specialist in the Russian 20th-century avant-garde, Professor Bowlt is well qualified to place the silver age in context." ~ The Art Newspaper "This lushly illustrated volume captures the artistic explosion that was Russia’s Silver Age." ~ Russian Life "(An) authoritative feast of a book." ~ The Irish Times "Splendidly illustrated, beautifully designed . . . ." ~ Shepherd Express "A truly seminal work . . . ." ~ Midwest Book Review "Lavishly illustrated and elegantly written narrative survey." ~ Panache Privée "A dazzling array of color illustrations and period photos displaying the glories of Russia’s art, architecture and scientific achievements." ~ California Literary Review

Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life & Culture of the Russian Silver Age

Vendome Press

Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova the work o six legendary Russian women artists is poignantly explored, offering a refreshing look at this important period of art. Celebrating the vital role that each artist played in the formation of the radical art of the Russian avant-garde, the book looks at the evolution of the Russian painting from the 1900's through the early 1920's. It brings together the brilliant masterpieces of the period, including many that have not been in the West since they were created. The work of these pioneering women artists is expressed as tremendously influential in the world of the Russian avant-garde and important in capturing the Modernist as a whole.

Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova

Drutt, Matthew

Exter, Alexandra

Goncharova, Natalia

Popova, Liubov

Rozanova, Olga

Guggenheim Museum

Silver Age: Russian Art of the Early Twentieth Century and the World of Art Group

Oriental Research Partners

excellent condition, unjacketed book with silver cover. Very clean text.

The silver age, Russian art of the early twentieth century and the "World of art" group (ORP studies in Russian art history)

Russia

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