Books published by Arca

This book includes 366 works of art from the State Hermitage Museum Collection, St Petersburg, Russia. It serves as an album and as a perpetual calendar with plenty of space to record birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates as well as personal notes. This lovely book could be a gift for art lovers and will offer inspiration day by day.

Birds of a feather...

This elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing "flower portraits", manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world.

Every letter in this unusual ABC book opens a door into the treasure-stores of one of the world's great museums. the book is aimed not only at children who start learning their letters, but also at a slightly older age group and at parents who want their children to understand art and beauty. At the end of the book there are detailded commentaries on all the works featured.

The book presents the collection of the State Hermitage, one of the greatest museums in the world. The aim is to give an all-embracing picture of the museum's stocks, to show not only the world-famous gems of fthe collection, but also works that are rarely included in publications.

Malevich's Black Square heralded the triumph of non-objectivity, when there was nothing left to destroy in the figurative form and the object lost its materiality. This canvas, shown at the "Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0.10" in Petrograd in December 1915, embodied its creator's conception of "the zero of form", the beginning and the end of everything. The artist repeated the famous composition, which undoubtedly became an icon of 20th century painting. The Hermitage has a version dated ca. 1930, it was formerly kept in the collection of the Malevich family.

ARCA publishers present a series of small-format books that acquaint readers anew with gems of the Hermitage collection. Fascinating fragments and details that quite often escape the eye provide fresh insights into familiar paintings and drawings, sculptures, works of jewellery and archaeological finds.