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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys Publisher Comments From the ruins of Soviet communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals of its founders. Like modernists elsewhere, the totalitarian artists and theorists of the USSR longed for an art that could transform the world it once... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure by Catherine Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy Publisher Comments A revelatory and startling book that solves a sixty-year mystery about the eighth wonder of the world. The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as "the eighth wonder of the world,"... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Ransom of Russian Art by John Mcphee Publisher Comments In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground “unofficial” artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Collections of the Romanovs: European Arts from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg by James Steward Publisher Comments European art from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $30.00 Used - Hardcover
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Art of Siberia (Temporis Collection) by Valentina Gorbatcheva Publisher Comments This book deals with people and traditions of Siberia, it can interest a wide range of people as it is a book on art, sociology and history.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Red Cavalry: Creation and Power in Soviet Russia Between 1917 and 1945 by Rosa (edt) Ferre Publisher Comments Aesthetic inquiry and politic Russia in the 1920s and... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR by John Berger Publisher Comments In this prescient and beautifully written book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Catherine the Great Treasures of Imperia by State Hermitage Muse Publisher Comments First begun in 1764, Catherine the Great's fabulous collection of paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and jewellery is still at the heart of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. This lavishly illustrated book adds a fascinating new dimension to one... (read more) Your price: $4.98 Used - Hardcover
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Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny, Endurance, and the Role of the Artist by John Berger Publisher Comments In this prescient and beautifully written book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Amber Room by Adrian Levy Publisher Comments The history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as “the eighth wonder of the world,” its vast and intricately worked amber panels were sent in 1717 by Frederick I of Prussia as a gift... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure by Catheri Scott Clark Publisher Comments One of mankind's greatest treasures, the Amber Room stood as a symbol of Russian glory for over 200 years. But after the Nazi invasion, it was never seen again. Now, in a masterpiece of detection, two investigative journalists reveal what happened to the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism by Boris Groys Publisher Comments In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of unofficial artists in Moscow--artists not recognized by the state, not covered by state-controlled media, and cut off from wider audiences--created artworks that gave artistic form to a certain historical moment: the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Sale - Hardcover
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George Costakis :a Russian life in art by Peter Roberts Book News Annotation Until his departure from Russia in 1977, Costakis was chief administrator for the Canadian embassy in Moscow, during which time he collected the abstract, constructivist, and experimental art of 1912- 30 that had fallen into official disrepute under... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Moscow: Treasures & Traditions by W Bruce Lincoln Book News Annotation Published in association with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service on the occasion of a major exhibition, this beautiful volume reflects 500 years of Russian history through 12 essays and some 180 color photographs. Annotation c... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Beautiful Loot: Russia's Treasure Troves of Stolen Art from World War II by Konstantin Akinsha Book News Annotation Two museum directors in the Soviet Union document how Russians stole millions of art objects from European museums and private collectors during the last days of World War II and hid them in secret depositories for 50 years. The treasures were to... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hermitage Selected Treasures From a Grea by Edwa Booth Clibborn Publisher Comments The Hermitage showcases some of the most famous treasures from the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, including Leonardo's Benois Madonna and Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son, as well as superb examples of Scythian gold, ancient Egyptian... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quest for self-expression :painting in Moscow and Leningrad, 1965-1990 by Elena Kornetchuk Book News Annotation Ninety-four works have been selected to represent the diversity of art that has emerged and survived during the past 25 years in the two major art centers of the Russian republic. Forty-three artists of the sixties, seventies, and eighties are... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Art in Revolution by John Berger Publisher Comments In this prescient and beautifully written book, John Berger examines the life and work of Ernst Neizvestny, a Russian sculptor whose exclusion from the ranks of officially approved Soviet artists left him laboring in enforced obscurity to realize his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Treasures of the Czars by Florida Internationa Publisher Comments This book features many of the remarkable works of art housed in the former armoury and other museums of the Moscow Kremlin, including Peter the Great's coronation crown, and Faberge's Tricentennial Easter Egg commissioned in 1913 by Nicholas II to... (read more) Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Frescoes of St Pherapont Monastery by Irina Danilova Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover
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