Russkii Modern
Moscow: Sovetskii Khudoshnik, 1990. Hardcover. 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. 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). Item #182834
ISBN: 9785269000282
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 aestheticism that was vigorously asserted by the World of Art group. But there is no denying that the style was also shaped by the moralizing Leo Tolstoy who late in his for the primacy of religious and moral principles in a hierarchy of intellectual valies." - dust jacket description.
OCLC: 23267591
Price: $90.00