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ШЕМЯКИН & ПЕТЕРБУРГ : ПРОСТРАНСТВО ВРЕМЕНИ

Bibliographic Description

Шемякин & Петербург : Пространство времени. – СПб : Вита Нова, 2007. – ISBN 978-5-93898-128-7.

Publisher
Вита Нова
Year of publication
2007
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

The first art album of Mikhail Shemyakin published in Russia includes the sections: Space of the Plane, Space of the Stage, Space of the City. Mikhail Shemyakin appears as a graphic artist and painter, theatrical designer, sculptor, photographer and philosopher, a professor at several universities, and a tireless promoter of Russian art in the West. The book is devoted to Petersburg themes and images in the artist's life and work and covers a broad period: from his school years to his expulsion from the country (1971) and his return to Petersburg already in the post-Soviet era. The foreword to the album was written by Vladimir Ivanov, professor at the University of Munich, who in his youth, together with Shemyakin, developed the theory of "metaphysical synthetism" (1967), and who is the author of a number of books and articles on medieval and contemporary art. The publication offers no judgments and does not attempt a thorough analysis of the artist's work, but merely demonstrates the astonishing breadth of his quests, and the openness and integrity of a profoundly evolving personality.

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