This week, we were able to buy permanent purchase to this long-requested database of Ukrainian and Russian art history books and journals  From the supplier’s promotional material:

The collection documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. It also offers a selection of early 20th century art-related serials. These historical sources of pre- and post-revolutionary art reflect the diversity of artistic thought in the first thirty years of the 20th century.

This is hugely welcome news for our researchers, with requests for this database coming in regularly over the years but with enough money to make the purchase only coming now.  The books and journal issues were scanned from microfilm, so are all in black and white (as many would of course have been originally), which takes a slight shine off the delight, but our students and academics have been clear that this is a collection Cambridge really needs.

Next week, we will load records for the database’s individual titles into iDiscover, but for the moment you can browse the 140-odd books and 30 or so journals (listed at the end of the page the following link takes you to, under Other) directly on the Brill platform:

https://ezp.lib.cam.ac.uk/login?url=https://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/history-of-modern-russian-and-ukrainian-art

*illustrations from Anatolʹ Petryt︠s︡kyĭ’s 1929 Teatralʹni stroï

Mel Bach