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Mikhail Karasik. Great Stalinist Photographic Books // Paradnaya Kniga Strany Sovetov. Moscow: Kontakt-Kultura, 2007. 256 pp., colour illustrations. In Russian with an English summary.

Mikhail Karasik. Album in Avant-garde on Neva series, St Petersburg, 2007. 206 pp., colour illustrations. In Russian and in English.

Selected Bibliography

Mikhail Karasik: Lithographed Publications. Exh. cat. Moscow: I. D. Sytin Publishers Exhibition Centre; St Petersburg, 1992. Text by Yury Gerchuk. In Russian with a summary in English.

Das bibliophile Buch in Russland. 20. Jahrhundert: Das bibliophile Buch in Russland im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts; Michail Karasik. Lithografisch gestaltete Bucher. Exh. cat. Mainz: Gutenberg-Museum; St Petersburg, 1993.

Livres d’artistes russes et sovietiques 1910 – 1933. Exh. cat. Pays-Paysage in collaboration with Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris et les editions Dablus, Moscow; Uzerche, 1993.

MIDI – MINUIT / 1 a 12. 1991 – 1994. Exh. cat. Cabinet des estampes du Musee d’art et d’histoire, Geneve, 1994.

The Book Garden: Contemporary Russian Artists’ Books. Exh. cat. Bristol: Off-Centre Gallery, 1995.

Books by Russian and Soviet Artists 1910 – 1993. Exh. cat. Pays-Paysage in collaboration with the National Library, Paris and Dablus Publishers, Moscow; St-Yrieix-la-Perche, 1995.

Karasik, Michail. “Buchgarten: das heutige russische Kunstlerbuch.” In Bartkowiaks forum book art, Hamburg, 1995-1996, Vol. A.

Karasik, Mikhail. “Daniil Kharms and Contemporary Russian Artist’s Book.” In Artist’s Book Yearbook 1996-1997, Stanmore: Magpie Press, 1996.

Paper Theatre 3: Bookcamera or The Book and The Elements. Anthology and exh. cat. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 1997. In Russian with a summary in English.

Artist’s Books by Mikhail Karasik. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 1997

Sauer, Helgard. “Lithographische Illustrationen von Michail Karasik.” In Illustration 63, Zeitschrift fur die Buchillustration, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen, Heft 2/1998.

Game and Passion in Russian Fine Art. Exh. cat. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 1999.

Karasik, Mikhail. “Contemporary Russian Artists’s Books.” In JAB 11 The Journal of Artists’ Books, Published by Brad Freeman, New Haven, Spring 1999.

Der Kunstler und das Buch 1910 – 1930 … Das russische Kunstlerbuch der 1990er Jahre. ART Frankfurt // 9. Internationale Ausstellung fur Kunstlerbucher und Handpressendrucke (IAKH), Globus Galerie & M.K. Publishers; Leipzig: Edition Lebensretter, 2000.

Faszination Buch. Tradition und Experiment. Leipzig: Verein zur Forderung von Grafik und Buchkunst e.V., 2000. In German, English and French.

Mikhail Karasik. Minaret. Jewish Songs. Dmitry Shostakovich. Exh. cat. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; St Petersburg, 2001.

Karasik, Mikhail. “Book, Object, Box.” In OT’TISK Imprint # 1. Almanac of Printed Graphic Art, M.K. Publishers, St Petersburg, 2001. In Russian and in English.

Liberazione. Collezione Aprile di Cimia. Exh. cat. Torino: PEA Produzioni Editoriali Aprile, 2001. In Italian and in English.

Mikhail Karasik. Self-Portrait. Exh. cat. The State Russian Museum. The Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2003. In Russian and in English.

Kharmsizdat Presents: Russian Dada, OBERIU-Box, Literary Constructivism, The Leningrad Literary Underground. Exh. cat. The State Russian Museum, The Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2003. In Russian and in English.

The Artist Book in a Global World. Workshop Poestenkill, NY August 2002 / Edited by Wulf D. von Lucius and Gunnar A. Kaldewey, Stuttgart, 2003.

Kuznetsov, Erast. “The Russian Artist’s Books of Mikhail Karasik.” In Parenthesis 8 Concerning the Book Arts, The Journal of The Fine Press Book Association, Number 8, June 2003.

Karasik, Mikhail. “Leningrad Prints: Lessons of the Art Market.” In OT’TISK Imprint # 2. Almanac of Printed Graphic Art, M.K. Publishers, St Petersburg, 2003. In Russian and in English.

KunstlerBucher. Die Sammlung Reinhard Gruner. Exh. cat. Stadtmuseum Furstenfeldbruck, 2004.

Russian Book Art 1904 – 2005. A selection from the LS collection documented by Albert Lemmens and Serge-Aljosia Stommels. Exh. cat. Bibliotheca Wittockiana. Brussels, 2005.

Karasik, Mikhail. “Circle, Square, Cross and wallpaper… From the Avant-Garde Book to the Artist’s Book.” In For the Voice! Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910 – 1934. Artist’s Book 1970 – 2005. Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fountain House, St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2005. In Russian, with CD in English.

OT’TISK Imprint #3: The Artist’s Book in Russia 1990 – 2005. Almanac of Printed Graphic Art. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2005. In Russian and in English.

Collage in Russia: The Twentieth Century. Exh. cat. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg: Palace Editions, 2005.

Dialogues de papier: Livres d’artistes 1985 – 2005. Exh. cat. Musee Municipal de Saint-Cloud, 2005.

A Catalogue of Russian Avant-Garde Books 1912 – 1934 and 1969 – 2003 / Edited by Peter Hellyer. London: The British Library, 2006.

Joshua Heller Rare Books, Inc. Washington DC. Catalogue Thirty-Three, Summer 2006 & Catalogue Thirty-Four, Spring 2007.

Karasik, Mikhail. “Paradnaya Kniga Strany Sovetov.” In Paradnaya Kniga Strany Sovetov. Great Stalinist Photographic Books. Moscow: Kontakt-Kultura, 2007. In Russian with a summary in English.

Karasik, Mikhail. “For the Voice! The Russian Avant-Garde Book.” In ISTD Typographic 66, Journal of International Society of Typographic Designers, London, 2007.

Imprint: Russian Artist-Publishers. Exh. cat. Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels; Nijmegen: LS, 2008.

M.K. Publishers: Almanacs and Catalogues

Paper Theatre. The Experimental Artist's and Poet's Book. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House. Exhibition Catalogue. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 1992. - 52 pp., b/w illustrations. In Russian with an English summary.

Paper Theatre 2. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House. Exhibition Catalogue. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 1994. - 16 pp., b/w illustrations. In Russian with an English summary.

Kharmsizdat Presents. Anthology: Investigations, Essay, Exhibition Catalogue "Daniil Kharms and the Modern Russian Artist's Book", Bibliography. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House. St Petersburg: M.K.-Kharmsizdat, 1995, 130 pp., 61 b/w illustrations. In Russian.

BOOKCAMERA or The Book and The Elements. Anthology. Exhibition Catalogue. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 1997, 160 pp., 76 b/w illustrations. In Russian with an English summary. The first part includes articles on outstanding experimental publishers, the influence of the elements on the fate and aesthetics of the book and on the book itself, as an elemental part of creativity, on books in the system of contemporary aesthetic values, books as a plastic form of art. The second part is the catalogue of the exhibition "BOOKCAMERA or The Book and The Elements" held in the Anna Akhmatova-Museum in the Fountain House, St Petersburg, 1997

Kharmsizdat Presents SOVIET EROS. 1920s-1930s. Anthology. St Petersburg: M.K.-Kharmsizdat, 1997, 144 pp., 44 b/w illustrations. In Russian with an English summary. Under Soviet rule eroticism was a taboo subject. The semi-naked body of Homo sovieticus could be seen only at military parades, festivals of physical exercise, during heroic feats at the work front, and at sanatoria and resorts. Under Stalin sensuality of any kind had to have a class or ideological character; its only use was as an instrument of education, and unifying factor, for both workers and the main unit of socialist society - the family. This collection includes material on sensual culture (Soviet eros) in the theatre, in garden and park art, and in book illustrations, film, and literature.

Contemporary Russian Artist's Book. Exhibition Catalog. Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, 1998. - 20 pp. In English.

Kharmsizdat Presents AVANT-GARDE BEHAVIOUR. Anthology. St Petersburg: M.K.-Kharmsizdat, 1998, 192 pp., 38 b/w illustrations. In Russian A collection compiled on the basis of material used at Kharms-Festival 4 (academic conference, St Petersburg, 1998). Includes a reprint edition of A. Kruchenikh's book of poetry LAKIROVANNOE TRIKO ("Varnished Tricot", Tiflis, 1919), articles on the avant-garde behaviour of the Russian Futurists, and material on Daniil Kharms. This book represents the first attempt to study avant-garde behaviour as an independent form of art.



The Artist and The Book in Russia 1910 - 1930 … Russian Artist's Book 1990 - 2000. ART Frankfurt, 2000. Exhibition Catalogue. 70 pp. b/w illustrations. In German and Russian. - Catalogue in catalogue: 9. Jahresschrift fur Kunstlerbucher und Handpressendrucke (IAKH). Leipzig: Edition Lebensretter, 2000

Mikhail Karasik. Minaret. Jewish Songs. Dmitry Shostakovich. New Works. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Exhibition Catalogue. Moscow - St Petersburg, 2001. 8 pp., colour illustrations. In English.

DEMOB ALBUM - Russian Art Brut. Anthology, Exhibition catalogue. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, St Petersburg, 2001. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2001. 84 pp., b/w illustrations. In Russian with an English summary. Demob "culture" is one of the most consistent manifestations of army life, born as part of certain rituals and yet forming an independent genre which is something akin to folk art in its variety and mass nature. The Demob Album long ago outgrew the bounds of standard subcultures, and it not only expresses the tastes of a large part of the male contingent of society, but is the main form of creativity accessible in the army. Today, when the armed forces are forced to conduct military movements in the hotspots of the former Union, when it has ceased to be a peacetime army, the role of the Demob Alvum has changed. The desire of publishing houses and the high-ups of the army to unify the very form of the album, to make it a printed, typographically prepared product, regimented in theme and design, unavoidably turns it into an ordinary form of document recording army service.

Mikhail Karasik. Self-Portrait. The State Russian Museum. The Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum. Exhibition Catalogue. St Petersbutg: M.K. Publishers, 2003. 96 pp., colour illustrations. In Russian and in English.

Alexander Borovski. The Word. Special edition to the exhibition of Mikhail Karasik "Self-Portrait". The State Russian Museum. The Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum. St Petersbutg: M.K. Publishers, 2003. In Russian. In an edition of 200 numbered and signed copies. Handset letterpress text; in a cover: silkscreen printing.

Kharmsizdat Presents: Russian Dada, OBERIU-Box, Literary Constructivism, The Leningrad Literary Underground. The State Russian Museum. The Ludwig Museum in the State Russian Museum. Exhibition Catalogue. St Petersbutg: M.K. Publishers, 2003. 80 pp., b/w illustrations. In Russian and in English.

OT'TISK IMPRINT #1. Annual Almanac of Printed Graphic Art. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2001. 54 pages, b/w illustrations + 11 pages of original graphics, signed by the artists. In an edition of 150 hand-bound, numbered copies. In Russian and English. Cover of colored card with woodcut. Lithograph, etching, woodcut, linocut, photograph and computer graphic.

OT'TISK. IMPRINT #2. Annual almanac of Printed Graphic Art. St Petersburg: M.K. Publishers, 2003. 68 pages, b/w illustrations + 14 pages of original graphics (50 copies) or 5 pages of original graphics (100 copies). In an edition of 150 hand-bound, numbered copies. In Russian and English. Cover of colored card with linocut. Original graphics by St Petersburg artists: lithograph, etching, woodcut and photograph.



OT'TISK Imprint #3. The Artist's Book in Russia 1990 – 2005. Annual Almanac of Printed Graphic Art. St Petersburg : M.K. Publishers, 2005. In Russian and English.

Chudotvorets byl vysokogo rosta … Daniil Kharms Anniversary in the Russian Museum . Photo, Video, Object, Installation, Book. Exhibition catalogue. The State Russian Museum, The Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, St Petersburg, M.K. Publishers, 2005. In Russian.

Krugom vozmozhno Harms. Exhibition catalogue. St Petersburg Museum of History, Museum of Peterburg Avant-Garde Matyushin House, St Petersburg, M.K. & Kharmsizdat, 2005. In Russian.

For the Voice! Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910 – 1934. Artist Book 1970 – 2005 . Exhibition catalogue. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, St Petersburg , M.K. Publishers, 2005. In Russian with the CD in English.