Alexander Senkevich. REUNITING WITH THE PAST: ACROSS THE PAGES OF RENE GUERRA, "ARTISTS OF RUSSIA ABROAD IN THE BOOK ARTS: 1920-1970"

The monumental four-volume work of Rene Guerra, a French Slavist, is an encyclopedia containing concise biographies of talented Russian painters and graphic artists who after the October Revolution ended up outside the borders of Russia. For half a century they were engaged in book design and transformed the written texts into artistic symphony. Rene Guerra has been collecting items related to the creative work of artists of Russia Abroad. His connections with Russian artists were longstanding. The author documents 422 artists through 2,620 pages of his four-volume work with about 10,000 illustrations. These volumes together with other publications of Rene Guerra prove convincingly that the artists of Russia Abroad occupied a worthy place in the world book art.