This album of Modern Russian Painters, with its unique content and range of post-Soviet pictorial art and its trends, is the first attempt on either the Russian or western book markets to design an edition liberated from tendencies or engagements of whatever kind. It is unprecedented for a book on modern Russian artistic culture to represent in one edition artists with such differing, almost antagonistic views and incompatible aesthetic concepts; leaving political ambitions or claims of the fleeting fashion out of consideration. Quite a few masters presented in this album are renowned in the West but some are still awaiting to be recognized by foreign cognoscenti. An attractive feature of this book is that the paintings and sculptures it contains have been hand-picked by their authors. Every one of them provided personal and other information which they considered relevant. A hundred names and five hundred reproductions are by no means sufficient to give a comprehensive idea...
This album of Modern Russian Painters, with its unique content and range of post-Soviet pictorial art and its trends, is the first attempt on either the Russian or western book markets to design an edition liberated from tendencies or engagements of whatever kind. It is unprecedented for a book on modern Russian artistic culture to represent in one edition artists with such differing, almost antagonistic views and incompatible aesthetic concepts; leaving political ambitions or claims of the fleeting fashion out of consideration. Quite a few masters presented in this album are renowned in the West but some are still awaiting to be recognized by foreign cognoscenti. An attractive feature of this book is that the paintings and sculptures it contains have been hand-picked by their authors. Every one of them provided personal and other information which they considered relevant. A hundred names and five hundred reproductions are by no means sufficient to give a comprehensive idea...
