Russian Folk Art
Russian Folk Art

Author: Alison Hilton

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780253327536

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Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the settings in which folk artists worked -- the peasant household, the village, and the local market -- Alison Hilton discusses the principal media artists employed and the items they produced, from dippers and goblets to clothing and window frames. Emphasizing the balance between time-honored forms and techniques and the creativity of individual artists, the book explores how images and designs helped to form a Russian esthetic identity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Abundantly illustrated with examples from Russian museums, Russian Folk Art is a treasure for anyone interested in Russian culture.

Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians
Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians

Author: John A. Fleming

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2004-11

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780888644183

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With over 100 colour photographs, Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites and Ukrainians offers a stunning visual record of the culture and values of these four ethno-cultural groups. Authors John Fleming and Michael Rowan take an interpretive approach to the importance of folk furniture and its intimate ties to people's values and beliefs. Photographer James Chambers beautifully captures both representative and exceptional artifacts, from large furniture items such as storage chests, benches, cradles, and tables, to small kitchen items including spoons, breadboxes, and cookie cutters.

Kandinsky and Old Russia
Kandinsky and Old Russia

Author: Neil A. Weiss

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0300056478

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Vasilii Kandinsky, whom many consider to be the father of abstract painting, was also a trained ethnographer with an abiding interest in the folklore of Old Russia. In this provocative book, Peg Weiss provides an entirely new interpretation of Kandinsky's art by examining for the first time how this commitment to his ethnic Russian heritage influenced the painter's work throughout his career.

Russian Furniture
Russian Furniture

Author: Antoine Chenevière

Publisher: ACC Distribution

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Soon after her arrival in Russia in 1744 the future Catherine the Great lamented the pitiful scarcity of furniture in the Imperial palaces. Within less than a hundred years those palaces, and the grandiose apartments which sprang up alongside them in the burst of building activity that gripped Russia at the end of the eighteenth century, were filled with magnificent furniture, as befitted their sumptuous decor. This remarkable period and the flamboyant style it engendered have only recently excited interest in the West; literature on this subject is not only scarce, but also largely written in Russian. Russian Furniture is therefore valuable as a comprehensive study in English of the development and evolution of Russian furniture styles during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.