Mir Iskusstva: Russia's Age of Elegance by Petrova, Yevgenia (editor) - 2005

St. Petersburg, Russia: Palace Editions / State Russian Museum / Foundation for International Arts and Education (Bethesda, MD), 2005. Hardcover. NF interior but for name on ffep; with some rubbing to covers and bumps to outer corners.. Color-illus. boards with white lettering on black spine. 152 pp. with 140 color plates and additional color and bw figures. Text in English. Catalogue from the exhibition held at Omaha, Minneapolis, and Princeton between June 2005 and June 2006. Includes an introduction by Greg Guroff and essays by Yevgenia Petrova (Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in the "World of Art'), Vladimir Lenyashin (The "World of Art" and the World of Culture), Ellen Chances (The "World of Art" and the Context of Russian Literature), and Simon Morrison (The "World of Art" and Music). With biographies of the many artists. The material in the illustrated catalogue is divided into two parts: painterly objects and works on porcelain in the first section; different examples of graphic arts in the second. In both sections, the works have been arranged along genre and thematic order, independent of strict chronology that was not significant to the artists of "Mir Iskusstva" ("World of Art"). Lavish and vibrant.