Sports in Soviet Porcelain

Matveev, Mogilevsky, Notkin. Russian Museum! LARGE FORMAT!

The publication is dedicated to the embodiment of the theme of sports in Soviet fine art.

The album of illustrations is preceded by scholarly articles that present a broad panorama of how this theme is reflected in works of decorative and applied art, sculpture, and graphic art. A separate article is devoted to the collecting of artworks—porcelain items related to sports motifs.

It is supplemented by a detailed catalog of Soviet ceramics and biographies of artists whose works are featured in the publication.

The exhibition "Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Art, and Sculpture" showcased about 350 works of domestic ceramics (porcelain, earthenware, maiolica) from the 1920s to the early 1990s from the collections of the Russian Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, and private collections.

The exhibition ran from April 25, 2018 to July 23, 2018 at the Russian Museum. This book (catalog) was published for this exhibition.

The first three sections of the exhibition were dedicated to the country's main porcelain factories: the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Leningrad, the Dmitrov Porcelain Factory, and the Dulyovo Porcelain Factory named after the newspaper "Pravda". The fourth section included works from all other, smaller but no less interesting factories (the Pervomaisky Porcelain Factory, the "Proletary" Factory, the Konakovo Earthenware Factory named after M. I. Kalinin, the "Keramik" and "Progress" artels, and others).

The exhibition allowed one to trace how the theme of sports and a healthy lifestyle changes under the influence of the tasks set by the era for ceramic art, how a particular sports event is reflected (Spartakiads, Olympic Games, Goodwill Games), and what new artistic motifs and techniques artists use in a given period of the country's history. For the first time, the theme of sports in porcelain is covered so comprehensively—the exhibition featured the work of more than 90 artists.

The ceramics on sports themes were complemented by works of Soviet graphic art and sculpture from the collection of the Russian Museum.

Authors:

Leonid Matveev, Egor Mogilevsky, Leonid Notkin

Type of publication: Separate edition

Type: Printed book

Format: 250 x 325 mm

Publisher: State Russian Museum

Year of publication: 2018

Number of pages: 232

Language: Russian

Type of cover: Hardcover, dust jacket!