Art

Hardcover. Galerie Raeber, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. GERMAN TEXT. 190 pages plus a photo gallery showing 572 works in b&w in rear. The main section has a generous selection of paintings reproduced in color. Georges Einbeck was born in 1871 in the West Prussian town Golluschutz (Goluszyce). After several trips to Paris, Einbeck begins self-taught with painting in 1897, followed by studies at the Academy of Arts in Munich and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts as well as the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. He also studied with Henri Matisse. In the 1920s, he lived in Switzerland for some time. His early works still show influences of Art Nouveau style, the later works, however, are influenced by Expressionism especially the Fauvism painting. He died in 1951. Book is clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, Flame Tree Publishing, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color photographs throughout. Only light edgewear. Matching laminated boards.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Features 131 illustrations, 31 in full color. Dust jacket with age toning to edges, tears to corners one closed tear (2 inches) to back of jacket. Otherwise clean, bright & unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Abradale Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, An authoritative study of 309 drawings - including 134 plates in full color - from Wright's Taliezin Studio by a renowned authority on Wright's work. First 20 pages with faint creases to pages, otherwise a bright, clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Royal Academy Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages, color plates. From Jacob Epstein to Sarah Lucas, this magnificent book explores sculpture in Britain over the last 130 years. Including works by varied artists such as Frederic Lord Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, and Damien Hirst, the book highlights the dialogues between British and international sculpture, examines the importance of the country's landscape as a location and medium, and looks at the perennial choice faced by the sculptor between figuration and abstraction. Sculpture has changed dramatically in the last century. This compelling book documents these seismic shifts. Remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light edgewear to wrappers. Color comics throughout. This volume finds Herriman flowering into the peak of his inventiveness, liberated at last from the constraints of his syndicate's chosen format. Gorgeous cartoons are augmented by rare bonus materials. This volume is one in a long-term plan to chronologically reprint the entirety of the 28-year run of Krazy Kat's breathtaking Sunday page, most of which has not seen print since originally running in newspapers 75 years ago. Each volume is painstakingly edited by the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum's Bill Blackbeard, the world's foremost authority on early 20th Century American comic strips, and designed by Jimmy Corrigan author Chris Ware. In addition to the 104 full-page black-and-white Sunday strips from 1929 and 1930 (Herriman did not use color until 1935), the book includes an introduction by Blackbeard and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera from Ware's own extensive collection, as well as annotations and other notes by Ware and Blackbeard.

Hardcover. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 214 pages with dust jacket and plastic covering. Small crease on upper right hand corner of jacket. Markings from a paper clip on flap, front fly leaf and half-title page. Newspaper clippings from 1970 about the artist laid in. Includes 291 wonderful photographs by the artist and other photographers, captions, and an index. 214 pages.

Softcover. NY, privately printed, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 83 pages, color illustrations. This book presents the street art of Richard Hambleton, showcasing 87 of his paintings photographed by Franc Palaia. The images capture the artist's work in New York City from 1981 to 1989, as well as his travels to Italy and Holland during that time. SIGNED BY PALAIA on the title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Little, Brown UK , 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, lavishly illustrated in color. This is a truly exceptional collection of drawings from one of our most revered cultural commentators. Gerald Scarfe began his career in the 60s working for PUNCH and PRIVATE EYE before taking a job as a political cartoonist for the DAILY MAIL. He then worked for TIME Magazine in New York before starting his long association with the SUNDAY TIMES that still exists today in the form of his weekly drawings. His varied career has seen him work with Pink Floyd (The Wall, Wish You Were Here), Roger Waters and Eric Clapton (The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking), Disney (Hercules), English National Ballet (The Nutcracker), Los Angeles Opera (Fantastic Mr Fox) as well as produce such iconic images as those for the titles of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister. His work has featured in the New Yorker and various BBC TV films such as Scarfe on Sex and Scarfe on Class. Exhibitions of his paintings and drawings have appeared in the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. He is viewed by many as both a national treasure and a genius and this is the first collection of his work to appear for 20 years.

Hardcover. US, Getty Publications, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Documents the burgeoning Southern Californian post-war art scene, with several essays following a more or less chronological order, and hundreds of illustrations of artworks, but also of art people (a wonderful 1963 photograph of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a naked Eve Babitz in front of a replica of his Large Glass in Pasadena, photographs of artists working in their studios, etc). Some names are well known, others less so, but it is the versatility, the creativity and, above all, the richness and depth of this LA art scene that strike the reader-viewer through these richly illustrated pages. The birth of a genuine pop art in California (thanks to some of the most gifted artdealers in the US), of conceptual art, the creation of a new way of making sculpture, all those aspects are tackled in an informative and erudite (sometimes too erudite, though...)text that makes this book a more than valuable addition to the literature on post-war American art.

Hardcover. Simcoe, Ontario, The Norfolk Historical Society/Fanshawe College, 2nd revised, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in black. Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean. No dust jacket.

Softcover. Pittsfield MA, The Berkshire Museum, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages, sepia toned illustrations. Essay by Fels. Clean copy.

Softcover. Toronto CA, McClelland and Stewart, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages, 125 color, 135 black & white. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. "A major study of the artistic traditions of Canada's Native peoples and of their place in the cultures and belief systems in which they originated. Here, for the first time, is Native Canadian work from museums and private collections around the world. The works, and the essays that describe their contexts, bring to life the spiritual and aesthetic identity of the craftspeople and their societies. From richly ornamented costumes displaying the wealth of their owners to practical techologies that enabled the peoples to thrive in their environments, these treasures reflect Native life at the time of contact with Europeans." Clean copy.

Softcover. Dublin, Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Includes 405 illustrations with 384 in color. A collection of works by Jack Pierson.

Hardcover. Woodstock, New York, The Overlook Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Encyclopedic volume featuring the historical evolution of American homes. Hardcover, 320 pages. Over 1000 black/white illustrations, including architectural plans for each variety of home discussed. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, only flaw on the dust jacket is a small blue ink stain on the front.

Softcover. Buffalo NY, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran January 29 through March 12, 2005. Text by Douglas Dreishpoon, Nancy Princenthal, and Eleanor Heartney. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vertigo/DC Comics, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Graphic novel, 158 pages, art by Danijel Zezelj. Alik is a former Soviet soldier who has relocated to Coney Island only to become a gangland enforcer. He's haunted by memories of his past, and the only thing that soothes his angst is booze, heroin and his lover, the prostitute Marina. But as much as Alik encourages her to break away from the ganglord who owns her, Marina can't because of her daughter, who never leads the ganglord's side. So Alik comes up with a desperate plan to save all three of them, and in doing so, he'll find he's destined to repeat the past over and over again, including a past or two he might not even be aware he has, in a story that flashes from present- day run down Coney Island to the Russia of 10 years ago during the Second Chechen War to turn of the 20th century Coney Island, when the area was at its peak amusement park glory and wonder.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Images of New Orleans and the city's jazz culture, performers, bands, and clubs between 1957 and 1982. Over 200 black and white photographs taken by Friedlander. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Boston Book & Art, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 215 pages, 176 illustrations in b&w and color. A book issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington celebrating the centennial of Sloan's birth. Includes a list of books illustrated by the artist, other selected bibliography. Dust Jacket with light edgewear, rubbing.

Softcover. Hartford CT, Trinity College, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 12 pages with color, b&w plates. Essay by Kate Linker. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Mesquite TX, Vanguard Productions, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. This book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself. For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.

Hardcover. New York, W. Colston Leigh, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt titles on front and spine, unpaginated, b&w cartoons throughout, drawings from Judge, The Bystander, Life, New Yorker and College Humor. SIGNED BY BAIRNSFATHER on the front fly leaf. Mild crease to first four pages, tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Massachusetts, Little, Brown, and Company, na, 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of American artist William Morris Hunt. 219 pages with 16 black/white plates of Hunt's paintings. Cloth bound book is in good condition, some marks on the cover and corners slightly bumped. Some pages still uncut. Previous owner's name and date written in ink inside the cover.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated throughout with over 70 plates including 44 in full color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. In a lightly worn cardboard slipcase.

Hardcover. NY/London, E.P. Dutton, 1st, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Original white cloth with elaborate full gilt decoration to spine and front board, which also has a sunken panel, with a beveled gilt tooled edge, where a full color illustration is placed. Silk patterned paper endpapers. All edges gilt. Binding tight. This is a near fine copy, in exceptional condition. Folio, 15 X 11 1/2", illustrated with six stunning full color chromolithographic plates and twenty-seven sepia vignettes throughout the text. The artist is Julius Hoppner, a master of fairy and fantasy illustration. Printed in Nuremberg in 1888, this is the American edition with the Dutton imprint.

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. For his second powerHouse Books monograph, Juvenile, photographer Joseph Rodriguez spent several years following several youths, from arrest, counseling, trial adjudication, and incarceration, to release, probation, house arrest, group homes, and the search for employment and meaning in their lives. Through the power of his photographs, Rodriguez shows us how these kids struggle and how they fight to change their lives.

Hardcover. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages, b&w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked. Pictorial dust jacket with light sunfading to spine; edge wear and light rubbing near extremities. Clean text.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, The Linweave Association, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light peach boards with a maroon cloth spine. A promotional piece for a paper company. Literary contributions by Dunsany, Masefield, Morley, Aiken and others. Color illustrations by T.M. Cleland, C.B. Falls, William Aylward, Richard Floethe, others. Boards with light soil, interior clean, bright.

Charlottesville VA, University of Virginia, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog illustrated in color, 266 pages. The Kluge-Ruhe Collections, now held by the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, is one of the largest and best-documented collections of Australian Aboriginal art outside Australia. Art from the Land focuses on the desert region and Arnhem Land, drawing on the many fine works in the collection and on the authors' detailed knowledge of the artists and their communities to illustrate the unique and complex nature of Australian Aboriginal artistic expression. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This Is the Day: The March on Washington is a stirring photo-essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the historic march that ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Hardcover. Boston, Massacusetts, D. Lothrop & Co., 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Green cloth covers with black titles and gilt illustration, all edges gilt, beveled edges, multiple full page b&w tissue-protected plates, 12 chapters on different American artists. Very light foxing to tissue paper, mild wear to cover edges and spine; overall a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Softcover. PS Artbooks, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A true golden age masterpiece returns! Originally published by Fawcett Comics in 1941, this 100-page giant is now stunningly remade as a facsimile edition by PS Artbooks. Packed with thrilling adventures, America's Greatest Comics #1 features an all-star lineup of iconic heroes, including Captain Marvel, Bulletman, Spy Smasher, and more, battling evil in action-packed tales of courage and justice. With its dynamic stories and classic artwork, this meticulously restored edition captures the spirit of a bygone era. A must-have for collectors and fans of superhero history, this is vintage comic greatness at its finest! Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, illustrated in three colors throughout. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Oxford, UK, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. An introduction to Acland's entire body of work, this volume contains more than two hundred previously unpublished examples of her photographs, spanning portraiture, studies of Oxford architecture, and landscape and garden photographs captured in Madeira, Portugal.

Softcover. Delaware, Delaware Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial green wrappers, full-cover color painting on front cover. 174 pages, profusely illustrated in b/w, some color. Back cover slightly scratched and spine slightly worn, otherwise, tight, clean copy. Essay by Helen Farr Sloan, catalogue and prologue by Bennard B. Perlman. Chronology, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Catalogue lists 100 works.

Softcover. Milan, Olivetti, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages. Numerous illustrations and color photos. This is a catalogue for an exhibition of the preparatory drawings made by Leonardo for The Last Supper. Professor Carlo Bertelli describes the history of the painting (and of the many copies made over the centuries, which form an important documentary record).

Softcover. South Yorkshire, Pen and Sword, reprint, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, b&w illustrations. Even before she emerged from the cot in her nursery Beatrix Potter was up against it. With her prodigious memory she recalled being placed under the tyranny of a cross old nurse who introduced her to witches, fairies and the creed of the terrible John Calvin. More sadness followed. She had no siblings of her own age and was brought up virtually in isolation. She was afflicted by two most unpleasant illnesses one of which has not previously been recognized - and she found herself often at odds with her mother. She also had a love affair that ended tragically.

Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, This painting features guests sitting by the stone fireplace, enjoying drinks while the sun sets on the bay beyond the big picture window. Image size: 8* X 8", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.

Softcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Museum of Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated, 80 b&w images. Light edge wear to wrappers. Light foxing on rear cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 4th pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w illustrations. The collected writings of the "dean of the New York School of Abstract-Expressionist Painting." "The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature; translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive and every work of art should be alive." Thus Hans Hofmann wrote nearly half a century ago. He left the Old World, Germany, for the New, at the age of 50. In 1948, when the retrospective exhibition was held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Hofmann was 68; he had been in the United States for 18 years, a citizen for seven years. Yet he was scarcely recognized in Europe or America as an artist of significance and had never had a full-scale retrospective exhibition of his work. Beginning with a group exhibition in Germany in 1909, he had been given 12 one-man shows and had been included in four group exhibitions before the exhibit at Andover. Subsequently, he was to have 33 one-man shows and to be in over 60 group exhibitions, including the 1960 Venice Biennale, in which he was one of the four artists chosen to represent America. Clean copy.

Bauer and Dean, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. This alluring blend of art book and autobiography will capture the imagination. At its heart are hundreds of captivating 3 x 5-inch artworks? intricate collages and drawings created on old library checkout cards, each one representing a book that left an indelible mark on artist Barbara Page. She began creating these illustrated "book marks" as a colorful way to remember titles she was currently reading. Before long, Page embarked on a decade-long art project recreating her reading history, starting with picture books from early childhood. Every artwork serves as a bookmark for a moment in time connected to a specific title, and, as a collection, they present over seventy years of literature, politics, thought, and culture-as colored by one woman's reading choices. Some images may evoke your own memories of a story. Others may feel like little puzzles that require reading or rereading a title to interpret the artistic references.

Softcover. Berkeley, CA , Ginko Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Fashion Show explores the ideas and inspirations that have driven Paris fashion through the ages, and it investigates why, in an era of globalization, this venerable city remains an undisputed Mecca. Color photographs throughout.

Softcover. Scranton, PA, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Approx. 115 pages. 91 B&W and color prints. Red pictorial cover with slight wear around edges and spine. Black marks on front endpaper and flyleaf, binding glue also visible. Previous owner marking (Evergood) on spine. Overall, a clean, nice copy.

Softcover. London, Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small format softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color, one fold-out color plate. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Century, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Many color and b&w plates. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Like new still in publishers shrinkwrap. In addition to color plates of all works in the exhibition--nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures--this volume features essays by exhibition curators Douglas Dreishpoon and Tyler Cann, as well as poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein, and an illustrated chronology by academic and granddaughter of the artist Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract Expressionist-inspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic figure-ground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged works, Imperfections by Chance charts the full range of Feeley's influential life and career.

Softcover. Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Foreword by Gudmund Vigtel. Illustrated in B&W. Some surface wear to covers. Internally clean. Overall tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. White cloth stamped with maroon lettering. This is a very good copy of the First American edition of this extraordinary oversize folio volume that reproduces Duchamp's handwritten notes and drawings in facsimile in the original French with English translations. The acetate dust jacket is not present. Mild fraying to top of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 195 pages. Exhibition Catalog, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. This stunning catalogue includes color photographs of more than 230 objects, excavated in the 1930s by renowned British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley, from the third-millennium-B.C. Sumerian city of Ur. Learn the fascinating story of the excavation and preservation of these magnificent artifacts.Many of the objects are published in color and fully described for the first time--jewelry of gold and semiprecious stones, engraved seal stones, spectacular gold and lapis lazuli statuettes and musical instruments; and vessels of gold, silver, and alabaster. Curator Richard Zettler sets the stage with a history of Ur in the third millennium and the details of the actual excavations. Art historians Donald Hansen and Holly Pittman discuss the historical importance and significance of the many motifs on the most spectacular finds from the tombs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages illustrated in color. The sumptuous fashions of Valentin Yudashkin, the first post-Soviet designer to bring a contemporary Russian look to the international fashion world.