More on Maxim Kantor

[gp]

Actually, consider that a "like new" copy is around three bucks as
opposed to forty, I guess I can spring for it and find out for myself.

On 11/25/06, gp <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this - would this be the book?
>
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3775711171/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added/105-7826481-9650813
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> it makes it sound like it's only images, though.
>
> On 11/25/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > The author of that Textbook of Drawing that can't find an English publisher
> >
> > "Painter and author Maxim Kantor is an extraordinary man. Usually the
> > masters of nonverbal art tend to be, well, nonverbal. Artists writing
> > treatises seem to have vanished with the Renaissance. Earlier this year,
> > however, Kantor surprised both the artistic and literary communities by
> > publishing a novel titled "The Drawing Textbook" (Uchebnik Risovaniya). And
> > what a novel! At 1,400 large-format pages spread over two volumes, it is one
> > of the longest fiction books written recently, and, volume-wise, it rivals
> > such classic epics of Russian literature as Tolstoy's "War and Peace" or
> > Sholokhov's "And Quiet Flows the Don." And it wasn't just the size of the
> > book that invited such comparisons. Many critics said Kantor had revived the
> > tradition of the Russian socio-philosophical novel, and others, most notably
> > Dmitry Bykov and Grigory Revzin, heralded "Textbook" as a new "great Russian
> > novel," a feat that seemed impossible after "The Master and Margarita" and
> > "Doctor Zhivago."
> >
> >
> > Perhaps it wasn't all that unexpected. Several years ago, Kantor published
> > "The Wasteland" (Pustyr), a series of seven philosophical letters and 70
> > etchings. The letters, addressed to a nameless "beloved" who can be
> > tentatively construed as the embodiment of Western civilization, were
> > eloquent, elaborate and, indeed, philosophical; in a nutshell, they
> > contained the seeds of his future novel. This was already a surprising
> > project for a man better known as a visual artist, but at least the texts
> > were juxtaposed with graphical works, which is rather common in modern art,
> > though typically in smaller portions. "....
> >
> > http://www.context.themoscowtimes.com/story/172637/
> >
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