{"product_id":"georgy-frangulyan-by-clayton-press-9788857249209","title":"Georgy Frangulyan","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGeorgy Frangulyan\u003c\/em\u003e (b. 1945) creates monumental, classical figurative sculptures, including many public works. This monograph is the first book to consider the life and work of this \u003cem\u003eOff-modern\u003c\/em\u003e artist; that is, one who exists on the margins of modern art history and at the margins of error of major philosophical, economic, and technological narratives of modernization and progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt considers his work in light of the context of Social Realism, the Cold War, and the avant-garde. The core of the book is a survey of 30 monumental works and sculptures, as well as a thorough exploration of craftsmanship in his work, his training at the Stroganov Academy—the oldest university of applied and industrial art in Russia—his use of bronze, and the way the work exists on the periphery of the global market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrangulyan's sculptures are in many collections: the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, both in Moscow, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the Museo Dantesco in Ravenna, the Municipal Library of Colmar (France), the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, as well as museums in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Berdyansk (Ukraine). Other museum collections include those of Sochi, Tambov, and Kaliningrad (Russian Federation), as well as private collections in Italy, the US, France, Sweden, Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe artist is based in Moscow, working in a studio housed in an antique wooden villa located in the centre of the city, which features a foundry and a gallery of sculpture, paintings, and drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book includes prefaces by two curators associated with the Garage in Moscow, Ruth Addison and Valentin Diaconov.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455572590828,"sku":"9788857249209","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/414Uivb2-UL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774784106","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/georgy-frangulyan-by-clayton-press-9788857249209","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}