Title & Author:

Moscow : treasures and traditions / Mikhail M. Allenov, Irina A. Bobrovnitskaya, John E. Bowlt, Julie Emerson, Olga G. Gordeeva, Zlexey K. Levykin, Valentina M. Nikitina, Galina G. Smorodinova, Katrina V.H. Taylor, Tatyana V. Tolstaya, Inna I. Vishnevskaya ; introduction by W. Bruce Lincoln.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in association with University of Washington Press, [1990]

Description:

281 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the USSR Ministry of Culture in association with the Seattle Organizing Committee of the 1990 Goodwill Games and the Seattle Art Museum"--Title page verso.
Exhibition shown at Seattle Art Museum from June through Sept. 1990 and at the Smithsonian Institution from Oct. 1990 through Feb. 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-207).
Foreword / by Genrikh P. Popov -- Preface / by Robert McC. Adams -- Impressions of Moscow / by Donald R. McClelland -- Moscow : the cultural heartland of Russia / W. Bruce Lincoln -- Between heaven and earth : the external beauty of Moscow icons / Tatyana V. Tolstaya -- The golden age of Russian jewelry : Moscow metalwork, 1500-1800 / Irina A. Bobrovnitskaya -- Vessels of tradition : the kovsh / Julie Emerson -- A flowering of Russian style : Moscow metalwork, 1800-1910 / Galina G. Smorodinova -- A coat of mail and cold steel : the art of his majesty's armorers / Alexey K. Levykin -- "The tsar's highest favor" : Russian orders and medals / Valentina M. Nikitina -- "Gladdening the spirit" : a treasury of ecclesiastical textiles / Inna I. Vishnevskaya -- Spinning gold from Moscow threads : fashions and finery / Olga G. Gordeeva -- Hallmarks of perfection : porcelain of the Moscow region / Katrina V.H. Taylor -- Capital without a court : Moscow painting, 1700-1910 / Mikhail M. Allenov -- From avant-garde to avant-garde : Russian art, 1910-1990 / John E. Bowlt -- Moscow, the cultural heartland of Russia -- Icons -- Rusian jewelry -- Vessels of traditions (the Kovsh) -- Metalwork -- The art of His Majesty's armorers -- Russian orders and medals -- Ecclesiastical textiles -- Fashions and finery -- Porcelain of the Moscow region -- Moscow painting -- Avant-Garde (Russian art, 1910-1990) -- Rulers of Russia since 1462 -- Political leaders, 1917-1985 -- Acknowledgements / by Anna R. Cohn -- Catalogue of the Exhibition.

Summary:

Moscow, the cultural heartland of Russia - Icons - Russian jewelry - Vessels of traditions (the Kovsh) - Metalwork - The art of His Majesty's armorers - Russian orders and medals - Ecclesiastical textiles - Fashions and finery - Porcelain of the Moscow region - Moscow painting - Avant-Garde (Russian art, 1910-1990) - Rulers of Russia since 1462 - Political leaders, 1917-1985.

ISBN:

0295969946
9780295969947
0295969954 (pbk.)
9780295969954 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art, Russian Russia (Federation) Moscow Exhibitions.
Art and society Russia (Federation) Moscow Exhibitions.
Art russe Russie Moscou Expositions.
Art et société Russie Moscou Expositions.
Art and society
Art, Russian
Kunst.
Art and society Ruzzia (federation) Moscow Exhibitions.
Art russe Russie Moscou (Russie) Catalogues d'exposition.
Russia (Federation) Moscow
Moscou (Russie) dans l'art Expositions.
Art Russia Moscow Exhibitions
Art, Russia Moscow Exhibitions

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Allenov, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), contributor.
Lincoln, W. Bruce, writer of introduction.
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
Soviet Union. Ministerstvo kulʹtury.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 69234
Call No.: ID EXHX; ID:91-B545
Status: Available