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The State Hermitage Publishers, 2013. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. In Cyrillic. Spine cocked.

St. Petersburg: Hermitage, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. fine. Fine copy. In this lavishly illustrated Hermitage exhibition catalogue the authors trace the formation of the genre of artistÂ’s book, seeing its origin in the best examples of nineteenth-century French book design and illustration (e.g., Delacroix, Manet, Degas, Denis), and seek to place it in the overall history of twentieth-century art. The authors identify the subjects around which the artists most often chose to construct their books — biblical texts, ancient texts, classics of European literature, and French poetry. They follow the work of the collector and publisher who helped initiate the artistÂ’s book Ambroise Vollard, who worked with Bonnard, Denis, Picasso, Rouault, among others, and identify other publishers such as Albert Skira, who produced key examples of the genre. Also noted are contributions of Russian avant-garde artists like Natalia Goncharova. The catalogue begins with six works considered as precursors of the… Read More