in May on the shelves of bookstores stores will be 320-page album "Home circle. Nonconformist artists in the collection of Alexander Kronik ". Its author and compiler himself became famous Moscow collector Alexander Kronik, one of the founders of the Charitable Foundation artist Vladimir Yakovlev . Scientific editing done and Natalia Semenova Natalia Gorlenko.

Kronik began collecting the work of his contemporaries, the future classics nonconformism Anatoly Zverev , Vladimir Yakovlev, Dmitry Plavinsky , Vladimir Nemukhin and many others still in the early 1980's. His collection consists of about a thousand works, and includes works not only informal art, but artists do not belong to this circle, such as Mikhail Nikolayevich Yakovlev or Nikita Gashunin .

" His circle "- it is not just an album with stories" from the life of a collector. The rare documentary photographs, the catalog-resonator famous private collection, an extensive scholarly apparatus, as well as introductory articles by Catherine Bobrinsk, Gregory Zabelshanskogo and essays on Kuskova Sergei Vladimir Yakovlev make the book interesting for the general reader and for specialists who study the unofficial art. The volume of the landscape in the overall 320-page book is over 200 pages. The book contains biographies of artists, exhibitions, literature, name index. Album is printed in Italian printing.

Source: Alexander Kronik, artinvestment.ru