Icons of Modern Art: The Morozov Collection

Visited the exhibition at the Fondation LV in Paris this winter but only French and Russian versions of the book were available. I was thrilled to see the English version available on Amazon!Magnificent book, complements the previous volume of the Shchukin collection.. same format and presentation.High quality images of the paintings in the collection. Not 'Taschen' quality, but still good. Highly recommend!

Great background information on the collectors and their era, and a wonderful collection that we can now see. Book is embarrassingly heavy at 3.5 kg. And the quality of the colour reproductions is very poor - printed in Russia?

The exhibition was opened by president Macron - if you can make it to Paris - wonderful; otherwise this richly illustrated catalogue is well worth it. Great value!

Interesting collection. Poor image and paper quality. Disappointed.

I have been collecting fine art and photography books for 65 years and know a fair bit about the production and printing of these volumes, having recently launched a modest publishing venture myself, taking the work from concept to print.Firstly, kudos to the editors and writers of this massive catalogue. The effort involved is obviously enormous and the content of information and imagery is really impressive. For that reason alone I shall keep the copy I ordered.Secondly, and this is a matter of taste of course, I found the physical product itself disappointing because of what I think were some questionable design decisions - imaginative ideas that don't work, or simply poor choices. I explain:(1) Many pages of text are hard to read because the paragraphs are not properly separated creating a heavy visual overload of print. In fact, paragraph separation is inconsistently applied from one article or section to the next.(2) While the use of gate-folds has much to commend, the ones in this book are wasted visual space because the polarization/solarization of the images just doesn't work; it may look "artsy" to some people, but it fails to convey useful visual information.(3) The chosen printing paper is inappropriate for a catalog of this kind. It's not the kind of paper capable of rendering adequate shadow detail or colour gamut, and that is why other reviewers complained of the photos looking "dead". Trento Printer is a well-known experienced printer in the book publishing industry and they did a good job on the colour management of the painting reproductions, but that can't compensate for using the wrong kind of paper - an editorial decision. As a result, most of the monochrome photos look muddy, and while it works well for some of the paintings, others suffer from gamut constraint and lack of adequate dark shade appearance.(4) Again because of the paper, what was seemingly an intent to create a metallic gold effect in the gate-folds and at the binding edge of many pages falls quite flat and just looks muddy. On this subject, the whole idea of an ink spray on the binding borders of numerous pages is an unnecessary and I think unsightly distraction.It would definitely have added to cost and price to use the kind of paper more suited to this kind of art book, and LVHM are the controllers of the commercial strategy of course, but I think once we're into this price range anyhow, a larger budget and a somewhat higher price to accommodate the kind of presentation this subject deserves would have been a considerable option.So summing up - lots of very good, insightful content, probably will become an important reference document, but wanting on the production side. I would still recommend it to people interested in this subject.