Russian & Former Soviet Union

The State Tretyakov Gallery, the leading reservoir of Russian fine art in the world, has presented iconic masterpieces for the first time ever in Doha as part of Qatar-Russia 2018 Year of Culture. The exhibition catalogue traces the connections between...

In The Icon and the Square, Maria Taroutina examines how the traditional interests of institutions such as the crown, the church, and the Imperial Academy of Arts temporarily aligned with the radical, leftist, and revolutionary avant-garde at the turn of...

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future-which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity-has lapsed from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288821Author Louise HardimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...

The largest surviving portion of the first major collection of Classical antiquities in Britain - the sculptures and inscriptions collected in the early 17th century by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel for his London house and garden - is in the...

Winner of the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Women's and Gender Studies 2021 There was a discontent among Russian men in the nineteenth century that sometimes did not stem from poverty, loss, or the threat of war, but...

"This richly illustrated volume explores the Lobanov-Rostovsky collection... includes a thorough glossary and bibliography" Apollo "The essays and commentaries here provide valuable documentation and insights into the designs, their genesis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288838Author Louise HardimanFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619495388Author Arthur BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Maestro Publishing GroupPublisher Maestro Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art. It comes to these debates from a historicist perspective, taking as its point of departure one particular art programme, initiated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038300Author Klara Kemp-WelchFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262026505Author Djurdja BartlettFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1588gDimensions(mm) 286mm * 197mm *...

The contributors to this 1992 book examine various aspects of the relationship among Christianity and the visual arts, architecture and music in Russia. Within this broad area the book concentrates on specific topics rather than attempting a broad survey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999557204Author Louis MenasheFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Nap/ScarithPublisher Nap/ScarithWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999557211Author Louis MenasheFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint New Academia Publishing/VellumPublisher New Academia Publishing/VellumWeight(grams) 152g

This book is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia-the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or The Bronze Horseman, as it has come to be known since it appeared in...

The contributors to this 1992 book examine various aspects of the relationship among Christianity and the visual arts, architecture and music in Russia. Within this broad area the book concentrates on specific topics rather than attempting a broad survey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783988310002Author Marc BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Marc BoothPublisher Marc BoothWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959054713Author Werker CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector BooksWeight(grams) 408g

Miniature souvenir version of the large-format book. Bright enlarged details of paintings, icons, sculpture, jewelry, mosaic from one of the best museum collections can be found here.Book InformationISBN 9785912083945Author ,Valentina ByalikFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639195695Author Liudmila MiliayevaFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639193011Author Mikhail GuermanFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dell'arte-Harlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and others-have been vagabonding the roads of Russian cultural history for more than three centuries. This book explores how these masks, and the artistic...

In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future-which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity-has lapsed from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619494824Author Nicolas SmolniyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Maestro Publishing GroupPublisher Maestro Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

This volume of thirteen essays presents rigorous new research by western and Russian scholars on Russian art of the nienteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Over More than three decades after the publication of Elizabeth Valkenier's pioneering...

A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory This book, a philosophical consideration of Soviet socialism, is not meant simply to revisit the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646997923Author Sutherland LyallFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639193028Author Vsevolod PetrovFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Parkstone Press USA, LimitedPublisher Parkstone Press USA, Limited

Our publishing house presents the first ABC book of the Russian art from the 12th till the 20th centuries. You will find on these pages true masterpieces relating to a broad variety of genres: painting, icons, mosaic, sculpture, applied arts, all from...

"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich's art and biography. This latest research on the Russian modern artist...

The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the global stage. During these years four generations,...

The Russian budget process has received little detailed attention in academic literature. Here various key aspects of the formation of the federal budget, largely since Vladimir Putin began his third presidential term in 2012, are examined. It is...

In 1986, the Soviet government created a statute enabling citizens to form associations and clubs for the first time since the 1920s. This-and the 1988 law on cooperatives which permitted private enterprise-gave rise to the first official organizations...

Professor Lodder is a leading specialist in art of the Russian avant-garde which flourished during the 1910s and 1920s. She is the author of a major study of Russian Constructivism, acclaimed as the standard work on the subject, and with her husband has...

Monika Kopplin highlights the extraordinary variety of decorative techniques as well as the many stylistic features. The history and art history of Russia are reflected in the small format of the lacquer miniatures, painting a lively picture of the...

The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made...

This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels of a central motif: the square. The square was the most emblematic and widely known form/motif of the international avant-garde in the...

Inspired by Richard Wagner’s idea of the total artwork, European modernist artists began to pursue multimedia projects that mixed colors, sounds, and shapes. Polina Dimova’s At the Crossroads of the Senses traces this new sensory experience of...