Passion for Art: Essays on Art with Russian Roots
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798584881115
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-12-21
- Author
- Vitali Milman
Description
"A unique peek into the mind of a research mathematician on his journey as an art collector." In a series of captivating narratives, the world-renowned Israeli mathematician Vitali Milman recounts how he became an art collector, shares his observations on Russian modern art, and reveals untold tragic stories of better known and lesser known artists. Born in USSR, his early fascination with art started with the Russian Avantgarde, which was forbidden to public display at the time. Seeking art was a subversive activity, and one could experience art only in private collections through discreet connections and personal relationships with the artists. Those encounters, often engrossing and tragic, he recounts in this book. As a mathematician, Prof. Milman has travelled all over the world and never missed an art museum or a meeting with an art collector. In the second part of the book Prof. Milman reveals lesser known stories he discovered in his expeditions about classical figures such as Giotto, El Greco, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec, Utrillo and many others, and places like Santorini - and the art of legendary Atlantis. Between artists with Russian roots and spirit depicted in this book are classical names like Wassily Kandinsky, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Lydia Mandel, Vera Rochlina and Vladimir Weisberg and contemporary artists as Leonid Balaklav, Fima (Ephraim Roeytenberg), Aaron Giladi, Ilya Kleiner, Valery Konevin, Jan Rauchwerger, Ira Reichwarger (Rileeva), Tanya Preminger and Valya Shapiro.
