Russkii modern Unknown - 1990

Moscow: Sovetskii Khudoshnik, 1990. Hardcover. VG/VG- (book shows minimal wear at edges, all pages clear and intact - dust jacket shows some wear at corners and a few small tears along top, still protective). Black cloth boards with green embossed illustration on front cover and bronze embossed lettering on cover and spine, black and color pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, 359 pp., both color and bw illustrations. TEXT IN RUSSIAN "The Art Nouveau style was the name most often used by contemporaries in referring to a movement that made its mark in Russia's visual arts in the 1890s-1900s. The movement showed its unmistakable likeness to Europe's innovative styles of the period. But it also had a conspicuous national identity of its own, an identity that grew out of the then Russian social environment and cultural tradition. Aestetically, the Russian Art Nouveau style embraced differing investigations that were made into intellectural experiences back in those days. It relied upon… Leer más

Moscow: Sovietsky Khudozhnik, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Russian text only. Profusely illustrated in full color and black & whiite. A survey of Russia's brief Art Nouveau movement in architecture. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. In a plain cardboard slipcase. Record # 405172