Today, August 10 for a meat house the State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno opens an exhibition project in two exhibitions: "Hand Book" ("Artist Book") and "large and small.

Today, August 10 for a meat house the State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno opens an exhibition project, which includes two exhibitions: "Hand Book" ("Artist Book") and "large and small. Children's book as an art object ».

There is probably no better place than the museum Tsaritsyno to show adults and children who come to admire the Tsaritsin park and Tsaritsyn palaces, two exhibitions -" Artist Book "and" Children's Book ". After all, the "book art" and "Children's Book" - is first and foremost to the authors' own favorite stories to other children and adults, for which authors, writers and authors, artists compose, draw, publish, and sometimes doing something Similar to the palaces of the Bazhenov-boxes unusual "artist's books».

Whatever struck a variety of shapes and looks as if no different "artists book" from the usual books in bindings, based on all of the exhibited the exhibition of works on the idea of the book. Without recourse to the idea of artists and the way the books displayed at the exhibition of work just not born to be, instead, there would be a series of prints, or sculpture, or something else, not a book artist. To "book artist" is not necessary, as a rule, publishers, and only need the artist himself - his talent, his hands, a bit of materials and tools.

In the USSR, a children's book in the second half of the XX century was a kind of salvation sovereign artistic ideas, legalization of genuine creativity, its nature and universality. The artist sought and usually had the opportunity not only to preserve their creative independence, organics his artistic language, but also enable the child to express his sense of naturalness in dealing with the book. Books 1960-80-ies carry educational start, consider the child reader as an extremely curious person, howcast. This tradition had its roots in children's books 1920-30-ies.

culture of the last decades of the XX century, visual design and drama of the text determine not only the image of the book, turning it into an object, but also allow you to include in its artistic context of the process of scrutiny, scrutinizing the details, to experience the spatial imagery of the book. The exhibition will feature work Ilya Kabakov and Victor Pivovarov , Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev , Hulot Sooster , Edward Gorokhovsky and many others.

shows "Children's Book" and "Hand Book" will be open to visitors until 12 September 2010.

Source: tsaritsyno.net