National Art Crafts 15 Republics of the USSR. 1979 . Start Price USD 149.99 Current Price USD 149.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 24, 2008 End Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 Location Bukhara See more about 'National Art Crafts 15 Republics of the USSR. 1979 . ' Description National art crafts 15 republics of the USSR Hand Made works all 15 republics of the Former USSR. What is folk arts and crafts? These are historically established, surviving and currently active centres of popular creativity. They are living cultural monuments. All peoples, since the dawn of their civilizations, strived to express their concepts of the world and life around them, and their delight in the beauty, significance and power of nature. From times immemorial, they have created legends, tales, epics, rites, and songs. They saw every object they came in contact with as possessing certain natural features, and tried to make their things functional and beautiful at once. Folk art is always joyous and optimistic. It proclaims love of life and vitality of people. Optimism is common to folk arts all through the world. National features born of differences in landscape and climate, life-styles, history, and emotional and psychological profiles of the people, give a unique spiritual quality to objects produced by people's hands. The spiritual charge and aesthetic value of expression are the source of current interest in all forms of folk art. In the Soviet Union, folk arts and crafts have always enjoyed universal recognition. It is a well-known fact that Lenin paid a great deal of attention to their development. In the twenties and thirties, centres of folk arts and crafts were revived, from old traditions, in many parts of the country. Many gifted craftsmen whose work has gone down in the history of Soviet art, have been reared there during the five decades. Lately, folk arts and crafts have seen a universal revival. They are rapidly entering our everyday living. The resolution of the CPSU Central Committee, On Folk Arts and Crafts (January 1975), was of major importance here. We have every reason to call the resolution a historic one, as it has contributed unprece-dentally to the revival and development of popular arts and crafts in the Soviet Union. In the months that immediately followed the Resolution, a great deal of effort was spent to develop further folk arts and crafts. Now, almost five years later, the joint effort and financial input of the state into the development of folk arts in every national republic have yielded obvious progress. Public, state and, above all, party agencies have all contributed to resolving important large-scale and local problems of folk arts development. Lost crafts have been recovered in many regions, such as blue ceramics in Central Asia, Penza toys, blue cloth-printing and Alvan carpeting in Georgia, pattern weaving in the Ivanovo Region, bead-embroidered fur items in Yakutia, Kargopol toys, some crafts in Bashkiria, Tataria, Udmurtia, Mordovia, and Komi, stained woodwork in Arkhangelsk, etc. In Byelorussia, where traditional crafts perished during the Second World War, they are being recovered on a large scale. New folk arts and crafts museums are set up, as are specialized arts and crafts departments in all existing museums of the arts and regional studies. Museums of folk art have opened in the Ukraine, Lithuania, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan. In Moscow, a museum of applied and folk arts of the Russian Federation is established. There are plans for museums of folk arts in Byelorussia, Estonia and other republics. The implementation of the CPSU Central Committee's resolution on folk arts and crafts in national republics involves joint effort of the USSR Artists' Union, the USSR Ministry of Culture, ministries of local industries, and other concerned agencies. Notably, some ministries are very active in their effort to revive folk crafts. The Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Timber Industry has achieved remarkable success in re-establishing a truly folk tradition of woodcarv-ing, enjoying very high standards of quality. Its samples are an evidence of deep insight into the very nature of folk art. During 1977 and 1978, the republican ministries of culture and the artists' unions, supported by all concerned ministries and agencies, organized and held republican exhibitions of folk arts and crafts that were later followed by an All-Union exhibition. They gave a large-scale demonstration of the great diversity of forms and genres to be encountered in folk arts, and largely aided the recovery of lost crafts as well as the discovery of new talents. Conferences and seminars were held to discuss the results of the exhibitions. They gave a comprehensive coverage to the current situation in folk arts and crafts and the perspective of their development. The All-Union Exhibition of Folk Arts and Crafts was held at the USSR Artists' Union Club in Moscow in 1980. It featured exhibits created in the past four to five years, that is, since the CPSU Central Committee's resolution on folk arts and crafts, by craftsmen from all national republics. It was, in fact, a show of the Resolution's effectiveness. The exhibits have demonstrated that modern folk art follows diverse trends, as shaped by historical experiences and traditions of different regions and republics, as well as demands put forward by the community. Of late, many objects of applied folk arts have been losing their primary practical function, whereas the emphasis has shifted to their artistic and aesthetic value. It is in this capacity that they are entering everyday life of Soviet people. It makes a lot of difference how and what man uses in his daily life. The world of objects, this "second nature" of a kind, created by human civilization, has always influenced man's spiritual makeup and way of living. Objects of folk art are not only delightful in their artistic merit. They universally and unfailingly carry an educational, that is, ideologic and spiritual, message. Today's traditional folk arts and crafts are by no means ^ an ossified handicraft form of production; rather, they are creative self-• expression of a contemporary master, sensitive to demands of his age. Objects of folk art are now part of contemporary living, modern architecture, our dwellings, streets, parks, clothes, popular and international festivals, etc. Folk art helps to create the environment of Socialist community, it is one of the items in the great synthesis of arts. It contributes to new socialist culture and the spiritual world of Soviet people. It is born of the people and it endows everybody with spiritual wealth. Konstantin Rozhdestvensky, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. RSFSR, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizia, Kazakhstan . Big Books Size: 12 x 10 inch (30 x 25 cm ) 368 Glossy Pages ,Languages; English and Russian .Mosckov 1979 . Circulation ;  limited . Condition: New Want to know more about Uzbek Culture, Clothes And APPLIED ART - Come in My Store "Antiquarian Textiles" !!! 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