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Anatoly Zykov about the current state of graphic art in Russia.

- To the great chagrin, a unique Russian art of book illustration is not what this bad - it is simply destroyed. Why? Because there was public support for the publication of an illustrated fiction. The main thing now in the book industry - an immediate profit, profit. And it gives Fiction with flashy covers and without any pictures - they fill the bookshops and stalls. I have not heard of any orders, contracts with major artists in the illustration of books. I believe that now is not acceptable conditions for the emergence of publications such as "The Lady with the Dog" by Chekhov with illustrations Kukryniksy, kuprinsky "Duel" with drawings Dubinsky, "Crime and Punishment" by F. Dostoevsky, with drawings by D. Shmarinov " The Divine Comedy "by Dante engravings M. Queen," Taras Bulba "by N. Gogol lithographs Kibrik," The Old Man and the Sea "by E. Hemingway, with illustrations by Boris Vlasov ...