Monumental art of the USSR. Kotov A.

The book “Monumental Art of the USSR” contains photographs of Soviet monumental art - mosaic, drawings, Sgrafito, stained glass and frescoes, which often decorated buildings in Soviet times. Now this type of art is in decline, preserved only in church design, and the monumental works of Soviet times shake without proper care and gradually disappear from the streets of our cities. The book on numerous examples shows how and why certain topics and plots began to prevail in Soviet monumental art, the most outstanding examples of the work of Soviet monumental artists are demonstrated.

Arseniy Kotov-documentary of Soviet monumental art of the 20th century. For more than eight years, he has been traveling around Russia and the post -Soviet republics in search of unusual objects of architecture, once inhabited, and now abandoned places in order to personally see and capture the traces of that distant and departed era, that big country, which extended from the northern ice seas to the hot deserts of the mysterious mysterious Central Asia, from the Baltic cities to the endless taiga of the Far East.