More on Maxim Kantor

[Ya Sam]

Definitely, yes. There might be some text, but I think it's more like a 
series of reproductions.


>From: gp <wescac at gmail.com>
>To: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: More on Maxim Kantor
>Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:05:29 -0500
>
>Thanks for this - would this be the book?
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3775711171/ref=reg_hu-wl_item-added/105-7826481-9650813
>
>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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