Moscow metro: architectural guide
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Moscow Metro. Architectural guide ”is a unique guide dedicated to the underground palaces of the capital, their history, device and design. The special shooting of the photographer-artist Alexei Naroditsky and the texts of the art critic and culturologist Evgenia Gershkovich about the main subway styles-from Ar-Deco to Hi-Tech-represent the most beautiful and original stations of each metro line. The illustrative series complement historical materials from the meetings of the State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva and the Museum of the Moscow Metro, and the story is texts about the fate of architects, artists, sculptors Alexei Dushkin, Ivan Fomin, Nikolai Ladovsky, Alexei Shchusev, Pavel Korin, Matvey Manizer, Evgeny Lansere, George Motovilov and many others. The through topics of the guide are stories from the history of the creation of unique ensemble structures, engineering discoveries, losses, restorations, about the search for avant -garde and modernism, the fight against the cult of personality and military tragedies, unique techniques of mosaics and paintings, the heritage of socialist realism and the revelations of postmodernism. So the “palaces for the proletariat” of the era of the 1930-1940s and “centipedes” without the “architectural excesses” of the 1960-1970s are collected in one edition of a pocket format, which becomes a book for reading and a photographic album, a source of information for specialists and a convenient guide for local historians, Muscovites, tourists and all guests of the capital
Author:
Author:Petrova A.
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9950-099-3
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