Iskusstvo Publishing House


Iskusstvo was a major state publishing house in the Soviet Union. Headquartered in Moscow, it published books on art history and aesthetics, history and theory of fine arts and architecture, theater and drama, cinema and photography, television and radio broadcasting, collections for amateur performances, plays, film scripts, as well as art albums. It was established in 1938 by merging two publishers, Изогиз and Искусство.
In the Russian Federation it has been reorganized into a state-owned unitary enterprise under the same name controlled by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Media.

Book series

  • «История эстетики в памятниках и документах»
  • «Человек. События. Время»
  • «Жизнь в искусстве»
  • «Шедевры советского кино»
  • «Мастера советского искусства»
  • «Памятники искусства Советского Союза» - jointly published with Edition Leipzig, German Democratic Republic
  • «Библиотека киномеханика»
  • «Мир художника»