International Project

Organizers:                State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape

Museum-Reserve «Tsaritsyno», Moscow

International Association «Kniga Khudozhnika», Moscow

Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol.

Curators: Sarah BODMAN, Mikhail POGARSKY, Vasily VLASOV, Viktor Lukin,

Place:                          State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve «Tsaritsyno», Moscow

Date:                            March, 13 – May, 18, 2014

Concept:

Artists’ books speak the international

language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. All artists, who work in the genre of the artist’s book professionally form a large international community. However, the artist’s book like any other artform has its own regional and national peculiarities.

Apart from the language in which the text is presented, there are various historical roots from which the artist’s book has emerged and on which the contemporary tree of this artform grows. In every country and in every city young artists learn many things from prominent artists and as such, new formal and informal schools of thought around the artist’s book are formed.

The international project “Kniga Hudozhnika/Artist’s Book. Russia/United Kingdom” aims to demonstrate the unique and common features of the

artist’s book, presenting works by artists from the UK and Russia united by national artistic traditions.