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Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MIT Press, 1980. 288 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1980-1981. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Groundbreaking exhibition of Russian and Soviet art, with a special focus on Suprematism and Constructivism. Full of great information, excellent biographical entries. Essential art history. CONTENTS: Natan Altman; Yurii Annenkov; David Burliuk; Vladimir Burliuk; Marc Chagall; Iiia Chashnik; Vasilii Ermlov; Vera Ermolaeva; Alexandra Exter; Pavel Filanov; Naum Gabo; Natalia Goncharova; Vasilii Kamensky; Vasilii Kandinsky; Ivan Kliun; Gustav Klucis; Petr Konchalovsky; Ivan Kudriashev; Mikhail Larionov; El Lissitzky; Kazimr Malevich; Pavel Mansurov; Mikhail Matiushin; Konstantin Medunetsky; Petr Miturich; Alexei Morgunov; Vera Nikolskaia; Liubov Popova;… Leer más

Secaucus, NJ: Wellfleet Press; A Quarto Book, 1990. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations (some colour); 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket toned, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "This is the dramatic story of the Ballets Russes during the Diaghilev years - its artistic triumphs and financial vicissitudes, its influence on Western fashion, intellectual and artistic thought and, above all, on dance which was revitalized by the brilliance of the Russian performances. The company Diaghilev assembled and then managed with his unique combination of ruthless determination, charm and artistic genius comprised some of the greatest dancers and choreographers - Fokine, Pavlova, Karsavina, Njinsky, Massine and Balanchine - who were given scores by great composers such as Ravel, Stravinsky and Debussy. Costumes and scenery were designed by painters like Bakst, Benois, Picasso… Leer más

New York: Park Lane; Crown, 1981. Cloth, 238 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Translated from the Russian and Italian by Daryl Hislop. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983. Cloth, 277 pages, illustrations (some colour); 34 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. TRES BON ETAT. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Half-title page lightly soiled, age toning. Dust jacket, with a closed tear & a creased front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Boris Koustodiev: Peintures, dessins, illustrations de livres, decors et costumes de theatre = Boris Koustodiev: Paintings, drawings, book illustrations, theater sets and costumes.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls; History of Painting Ser., 1965. Cloth, 207 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 28 cm. First published, 1965, under title: Peinture byzantine et russe. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. An attractive copy.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. vii, 248 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "Mostly religious in function, but preserving the classicism of Greco-Roman art, Byzantine buildings and art objects communicate the purity and certainties of the public face of early Christian art. Focusing on the art of Constantinople between 330 and 1453, this book probes the underlying motives and attitudes of the society which produced such rich and delicate art forms. It examines the stages this art went through as the city progressed from being the Christian center of the Eastern Roman Empire, to its crisis during attack from the new religion of Islam, to its revived medieval splendor and then, after the Latin capture of 1204 and the Byzantine reoccupation after 1261, to its arrival at a period of cultural reconciliation with east and west. / Robin Cormack is Professor in the History of Art in the University of London, and Deputy Director of the Courtauld… Leer más

New York and Washington D.C.: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Cloth, xiv, 415 pages, 64 plates, illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 25 cm. Topstained red. History of Civilization Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1998. 176 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. CONTENTS: Maps. The Byzantine Empire. Early Byzantine and Medieval Constantinople. Introduction. Three Phases.1. The Imperial City of Constantinople. Constantine's City. The Classical Heritage of the City. Justinian's City. The Period of Crisis. Medieval Constantinople. The Decline of Constantinople.2. Icons. Pagan Origins. Sixth-century Icons. Icons in Church. Iconoclasm and the Theology of Icons. The Restoration of Icons. Icons in Public. The Mother of God.3. The Secular Domestic World. The Palaces of Constantinople. The Fashions of Palace Life. Country Life.4. A Temple of Transformation. Early Byzantine Churches. Medieval Byzantine Church Design. The Medieval Decorative System. Christ in the Dome. The Selected Narrative. The Sanctuary. The Narthex.5. A Cosmopolitan Art. Art and Diplomacy. Italy. Palaiologan Art. The… Leer más

St. Petersburg and London: Aurora Art Publishers; Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1993. Cloth, 391 pages, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Greenwich House; Crown, 1983. Cloth, 160 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Authoritative. Profusely illustrated.. 2nd. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. xxv, 566 pages, [16] pages of plates, colour illustrations, colour portraits; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/top edge. Stated First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers--the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted from 1762 until her death in 1796; during those years she built on the work begun by her most famous predecessor, Peter the Great, to establish Russia as a major European power and to transform its new capital, St Petersburg, into a city to rival Paris and London in the beauty of its architecture, the glittering splendor of its Court and the magnificence of its art collections. Yet the great Catherine was not even Russian by birth and had no legitimate claim to the… Leer más

Leningrad: State Hermitage Museum, 1990. xviii, 206 pages, colour illustrations, map, genealogical table; 29 cm. Presented by the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Another copy available. "Catherine the Great started her collection in 1764 to decorate the Winter Palace. The treasures are now housed in The Hermitage museum in Leningrad. This book presents a selection of these treasures, including jewelery, such as a gold, diamond and sapphire snuff box, diamond watches, chalices, table services, armour, tapestries, dresses and portraits of her and her courtiers." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Catherine the Great and her age, by Dr. G. N. Komelova; The architecture of St. Petersburg in the time of Catherine the Great, by Dr. G. N. Komelova; Fine art, by Augusta Pobedinskaya; Applied arts, by Tamara Kudriavtseva; Russian culture and science, by Irina Uchanova; Commemorative medals, by Yevgeniya Schukina;… Leer más

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1978. 349 pages, [12] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Ecco; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009. xv, 432 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps, genealogical table; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "A portrait of the eighteenth-century Russian empress documents her rise from a little-known German princess to become one of Europe's most celebrated monarchs, in an account that offers insight into her public and private achievements." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The coronation of a usurper, 1762; From Pomerania to St Petersburg, 1729-1744; Betrothal and marriage, 1744-1745; Living and loving at the Court of Empress Elizabeth, 1746-1753; Ambition, 1754-1759; Assassination, 1759-1762; "Our Lady of St Petersburg," 1763-1766; Philosopher on the throne, 1767-1768; Imperial ambitions, 1768-1772; Paul, Pugache¨v, and Pote¨mkin, 1772-1775; The search for emotional stability, 1776-1784; Zenith, 1785-1790; End of an era, 1790-1796; The afterlife of an empress. . 1st.… Leer más

Leningrad: State Hermitage Museum, 1990. xviii, 206 pages, colour illustrations, map, genealogical table; 29 cm. Presented by the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. "Catherine the Great started her collection in 1764 to decorate the Winter Palace. The treasures are now housed in The Hermitage museum in Leningrad. This book presents a selection of these treasures, including jewelery, such as a gold, diamond and sapphire snuff box, diamond watches, chalices, table services, armour, tapestries, dresses and portraits of her and her courtiers." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Catherine the Great and her age, by Dr. G. N. Komelova; The architecture of St. Petersburg in the time of Catherine the Great, by Dr. G. N. Komelova; Fine art, by Augusta Pobedinskaya; Applied arts, by Tamara Kudriavtseva; Russian culture and science, by Irina Uchanova; Commemorative medals, by Yevgeniya Schukina; Literary publications in Russia during the reign of… Leer más

Leningrad: State Hermitage Museum, 1990. xviii, 206 pages, colour illustrations, map, genealogical table; 29 cm. Presented by the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Another copy available. "Catherine the Great started her collection in 1764 to decorate the Winter Palace. The treasures are now housed in The Hermitage museum in Leningrad. This book presents a selection of these treasures, including jewelery, such as a gold, diamond and sapphire snuff box, diamond watches, chalices, table services, armour, tapestries, dresses and portraits of her and her courtiers." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Catherine the Great and her age, by Dr. G. N. Komelova; The architecture of St. Petersburg in the time of Catherine the Great, by Dr. G. N. Komelova; Fine art, by Augusta Pobedinskaya; Applied arts, by Tamara Kudriavtseva; Russian culture and science, by Irina Uchanova; Commemorative medals, by Yevgeniya Schukina; Literary… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017. xxvi, 430 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Age toning. Stated First U.S. Edition. Fine DJ. "Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold. Between the first revolution in February 1917 and Lenin's Bolshevik coup in October, Petrograd (the former St. Petersburg) was in turmoil--felt nowhere more keenly than on the fashionable Nevsky Prospekt. There, the foreign visitors who filled hotels, clubs, bars and embassies were acutely aware of the chaos breaking out on their doorsteps and beneath their windows. Among this disparate group were journalists, diplomats, businessmen, bankers, governesses, volunteer nurses and expatriate socialites. Many kept diaries and wrote letters home: from an English nurse who had already survived the sinking of the… Leer más

New York: Schocken Books; Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, 1988. xv, 336 pages, illustrations, maps; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Photographs from the collections of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research and private owners, exhibited at the Jewish Museum in New York in February 1988.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers; Abrams/Cameo, 1995. Cloth, 64 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Great Modern Masters Series. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "One of the most original and imaginative geniuses of twentieth-century art, Marc Chagall (1887-1985) studied painting in his native Russia with the set designer Leon Bakst. Later, while working in Paris, he was strongly affected by the Fauves' brilliant color and the Cubists' new sense of space. From these and other sources, Chagall developed a Romantic and personal naive expression based on themes from Eastern European village life and Russian and Jewish folklore. Animal and floral motifs, village characters, brides, and pairs of lovers occur often in his imagery. As a fantasy artist and forerunner of Surrealism, Chagall… Leer más

New York and Washington D.C.: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers; World of Art Ser., 1965. 286 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Translated from the French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.