Moscow: Art for Architecture: Soviet Mosaics from 1935 to 1990

by Anna Petrova, James Hill, Evgeniya Kudelina

Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital. While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist 'pictures'. The entire history of Soviet art is thus reflected in Moscow's metro stations, palaces of culture, military museums, hospitals, schools, and prefabricated houses. Today, many of these works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3869220686
• ISBN13: 9783869220680
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Dom Publishers
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 9.5"