Valentin Yudashkin: 25 Years of Creation, 2013, HC, Very Good

Koda, Harold, et al. New York, Abrams, 2013. 

English, Later Edition, Very Good, HC, Folio, 10” x 12 ½," 320 pp.

ISBN: 9781419712135

Black paper over boards with full-color photographs to front and back, white text to spine, black endpapers and pastedowns, in publisher’s transparent plastic dust jacket with white text to front. Mild edgewear, very minor crease to top left edge near spine at front, mild shelfwear to jacket, mild edgewear to jacket, otherwise clean throughout, tightly bound, and excellent. 320 pp. Replete with full-color photographs and illustrations. Includes semi-translucent papers with text or sketches throughout. Includes texts by Harold Koda, Karina Dobrotvorskaya, Alexey Tarkhanov, and Valentin Yudashkin. A vibrant, stunning collection of Yudashkin’s pieces paired with their original sketches showing how ideas are brought to life. Texts provide insight to Yudashkin’s process and Russian influences. From Harold Koda’s essay: “In his work…he is achieving a perfect harmony between the different interior aspects of his models. On the one hand, unbridled beauty, nostalgic sadness, the fire of passions, extravagance, allusions, inventions, and suggestiveness, and on the other hand, form and the outer features of his creations.”