Palekh artist I. I. Golikov and his design of the book "The Word about Igor's Regiment": on the issue of Creative Borrowings

Abstract

The subject of the study is the analysis of illustrations created by the Palekh artist Ivan Ivanovich Golikov for the "Words about Igor's Regiment" – the largest monument of book graphics of Palekh art. The background, the reasons for giving I. I. Golikov an order to illustrate the book by the publishing house "Academia", the progress of I. I. Golikov's work on its implementation, as well as the impression that this publication made on customers and Soviet society are revealed in detail. The purpose of the article is, in addition to showing the possibility of fruitful work of a miniature artist in the field of art that is not related to the traditional lacquer miniature for Palekh, to analyze the creative method of I. I. Golikov when working on the illustration of this publication. Using the method of comparative analysis, as well as historical-systemic and iconographic research methods, the author at the same time focuses on the qualities of I. I. Golikov as an innovator and experimenter in art, which predetermined both the order for the illustration of the "Word" to this particular Palekh master, and the grandiose success that fell to the share of this book edition. It is in the study of these innovative qualities of I. I. Golikov, who is trying to "get away" from the stylistics of the lacquer miniature in his work on the publication "Words", that the scientific novelty of the study consists. The main conclusion of the article is the statement about the universality of I. I. Golikov as an artist, which allowed him to illustrate the publication "Words about Igor's Regiment", which immediately after its release became a universally recognized masterpiece of the art of Soviet book graphics.