Exhibition: Masters of book illustrations from the collection of Boris Mikhailovich Friedman

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The exhibition presents the work of a great master of engraving Russian Vladimir Favorsky

Mysterious monogram''WF''on the cover of''Little House in Kolomna,''Pushkin - not a mystery for Sherlock Holmes, but for the experienced collector. Painter Vladimir Favorski their books are not just illustrated, he designed them. A designer when and concepts such did not exist.

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"Already from the cover of the book, we see quite an unusual composition. Under the name - drawing, the output that is always placed inside the book. Font, by today's concepts - a violation of all canons. Look inside - there are more than half empty pages, images - is Pushkin, they are scattered as if by accident. In fact - is the result of the deepest work''- says the collector Boris Fridman.

Tabor lived and worked under the Soviet regime, but his work never guessed how the millennium at the yard. In the 24 th year illustrated the Bible - Book of Ruth. Invited to pose for his wife. While the schedule book for many artists has been and earnings, and a safe haven. Soviet book publishing lucky: here the work of the artists come first magnitude, those who refused to write the leaders, milkmaids and socialist competition winners.

"People in my circle, they have never stepped this milestone. And for many artists who today are celebrated, book graphics, and exercise it, and Kabakov, and Yankilevsky, and Bulatov - they preferred to earn money this way, "- says the artist Igor Makarevich.

In''Thackeray's''Vanity Fair, Igor Makarevich, spent 2 years. Boris Sveshnikov - a lifetime. At first his paintings were to illustrate the reality of the camp: in an absurd accident in 19 years of rebel Sveshnikov was in the camp. He was accused of plotting the assassination of Stalin.

"He spoke to his shot. And Soviet art, such syakoe, praised the Germans. In general, Sveshnikov - an exceptional man. And his paintings .... "- Recalls the art Valentine Tihanova.

After the camps Sveshnikov worked in publishing houses. Under the guise of illustrations to foreign classics - a''Three Men in a boat, not counting the dogs,''as if he were told all about the same - the nightmare of Stalin's camps.

"He is immersed in a world created by the writer, it seems, it is completely satisfied. He continues to dream and to live in that world to get away from that in which he stayed, "- says Alina Fedorovich, curator of the exhibition.

And only one single artist in this exhibition fantasized himself in pleasure, though a professional artist teacher of mathematics Lewis Carroll had never been.

''This is a facsimile edition of''Alice in Wonderland,''Carroll's handwriting and that remarkable - his drawings,''- says Boris Fridman.

Alice painted by Lewis Carroll, will become a model for book illustrators of the world. After all, who better knows the eccentric Carroll looked like Alice Liddell, daughter of the rector of the college where he taught and for which, in fact, invented this wonderful mysterious world, to get in which is possible only through the rabbit hole.

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We are familiar with B. Friedman almost twenty years, and I am well aware of his clothing collection. The fact that he showed at this show - only a tiny fraction of what he was able to collect. Especially good are his collection of Sixties and a collection of author's books, the latter is one of the best in the world!
Fascination with this trend has led to the fact that Boris himself has made the author's book: a specially brewed paper, specially made set of fonts (it will not offset printing), the artist Victor Hoppe made the illustrations, and now "The Lay of Igor" in previously published by the translation Victor Tinaeva - ready. This book, like much else associated with "Word ...", you can see at the opening exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka. I advise everyone - very interesting.