Михаил Шемякин "Steps, Ladders, Stairs in Art. Volume 1"

Intended for the general reader, the two-volume monograph Steps, Ladders, Stairs in Art is a visual examination of many manifestations of stairs in fine art and literature from pre-historic times to the present day. Throughout history and across cultures steps, ladders and stairs play a philosophic role in religious tradition and works of art: artists use the image to address questions of the path of life – how to ascend or descend, and where to; what obstacles are encountered on the way; individual flights and falls. The two volumes present Chemiakin’s visual analysis of the subject as well as explanatory texts treating diverse aspects of the research.Mihail Chemiakin, an artist, sculptor and art researcher, has collected over 2000 images on the theme of stairs in art, of which 768 are presented in this book. Steps, Ladder, Stairs in Art, first published in Russian in 2020, is the third in a series of books on themes of Chemiakin’s “Museum of the Imagination” research project.

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Intended for the general reader, the two-volume monograph Steps, Ladders, Stairs in Art is a visual examination of many manifestations of stairs in fine art and literature from pre-historic times to the present day. Throughout history and across cultures steps, ladders and stairs play a philosophic role in religious tradition and works of art: artists use the image to address questions of the path of life – how to ascend or descend, and where to; what obstacles are encountered on the way; individual flights and falls. The two volumes present Chemiakin’s visual analysis of the subject as well as explanatory texts treating diverse aspects of the research.Mihail Chemiakin, an artist, sculptor and art researcher, has collected over 2000 images on the theme of stairs in art, of which 768 are presented in this book. Steps, Ladder, Stairs in Art, first published in Russian in 2020, is the third in a series of books on themes of “Mihail Chemiakin’s Musеe Imaginaire” research project.

Михаил Шемякин

Steps, Ladders, Stairs in Art. Volume 1

Originally published in Russian as «Лестница в искусстве» by the Mihail Chemiakin Centre with the support of the Antropov Foundation, 2018.

This publication was effected with the help of the Preservation and Digital Transformation of World Cultural Heritage Foundation (Moscow).

The Mihail Chemiakin Centre would like to thank Andrei Georgievich Reus and Alexei Borisovich Antropov for their invaluable support of Mihail Chemiakin’s Musеe Imaginaire, as well as

Tatyana Chemiakine, Marina Kesler, Leigh Warre, Vladimir Ivanov and Alan Lamb for their help in the preparation of the exhibition and catalogue.

Concept, compilation, analysis – Mihail Chemiakin

Image pre-production – Sergey Krylov

Exhibition curator – Olga Sazonova

Translations – Sarah H. de Kay

© Algis Grishkevicius (LATGA), Andre Nagel (BILD-KUNST), Garcia Fernando Garcia (VEGAP), Gerardo Feldstein (SAVA), Jakomo Balla (SIAE), Joe Tilson (DACS), Joseph Beuys (BILD-KUNST), George Brecht (BILD-KUNST), Dorothea Tanning (ADAGP), Joan Miro (ADAGP), Ivan Ignacio Navarro (ADAGP), Yinka Shonibare (DACS), Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (BILD-KUNST), Christoph Medicous (BILD-KUNST), Larisa Stenlander (BUS), Louise Bourgeois (ARS), Marina Abramovich (BILD-KUNST), Marc Chagall (ADAGP), Marseille Duchamp (ADAGP), Massimo Campigli (SIAE), Peter Klemensovich (ADAGP), Paul Bury (ADAGP), Rene Magritte (ADAGP), Robert Raushenberg (ARS), Cеsar Martinez Silva (VEGAP), Sophia H?lten (BILD-KUNST), Stephanie Zohe (BILD-KUNST), Fernand Lеger (ADAGP), Hans Hemmert (BILDKUNST), Juan Mu?oz (VEGAP) Reproduced per a license agreement with UPRAVIS.

Reproduced per a license agreement with UPRAVIS.

«A ladder, quick, give me a ladder!..»

Gogol’s last words, noted by Dr. A. T. Tarasenkov 20 February 1852

Aurelia Raffo, Ugo La Pietra in The Big Chance, 1972, photograph

Exhibitions

2000 – The Sphere in Art

2002 – The Reaper: Images of Death in Art

2003 – The Hand in Art

2004 – Monsters in Art

2005 – The Metaphysical Head in Art

2006 – Out of Focus: Blurred Images in Art

2009 – Not Made For Walking: Shoes in Art