Tradition and Revolution in Russian Art

Original vintage reference Tradition and Revolution in Russian Art. The publication is a catalogue of six Leningrad in Manchester exhibitions: Russian Faces,Soviet Lives: figure painting 1910-45,which included artworks from the State Russian Museum,Saint Petersburg at the City Art Gallery,Manchester; The Russian Lubok: Two Hundred Years of Popular Prints and Bolshevik Posters,1917-25 from the Saltykov-Schedrin State Public Library,Saint Petersburg at the Whitworth Art Gallery,Manchester; Street Art of the Revolution: Petrograd 1918 from the State Museum of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the Museum of the History of Leningrad at Cornerhouse,Manchester; Posters of Perestroika from Interplakat,Saint Petersburg; St Petersburg from the State Museum of the History of Leningrad at the City Art Gallery,Manchester. Seventh exhibition The View from Leningrad: photographs by Anatolii Medvednikov at Sir William Siemens House has a separate catalogue. The cover features a painting Festivities in Uritskii Square on the Opening Day of the Second Congress of the Comintern in July 1920 by Boris Kustodiev. The publication shows artworks by famous artists,such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin,Mikhail Nesterov,Zinaida Serebriakova,Boris Kustodiev,Yuri Pimenov,Aleksandr Deyneka,Vladimir Tatlin,Marc Chagall,Dmitry Moor,Vladimir Lebedev,and others. Sponsored by Siemens Olympic Festival 1990,published by Cornerhouse Publications,200 pages. Very good condition,minor creasing on the spine,minor paper skimming on the cover.