Four purple books in a stack. The spines are visible.

Client

Timothy Stanley

Year

2019

Purchase

Igor Gyalakuthy
Maiastra: A History of Romanian Sculpture in Twenty-Four Parts

Măiastra: A History of Romanian Sculpture in Twenty-Four Parts by Igor Gyalakuthy is an experimental novel by artist Timothy Stanley. Presented as a series of scholarly articles on the history of Romanian art, the collection was written under the pseudonym Dr. Gyalakuthy. Gyalakuthy is a retired art historian from Romania, writing a final treatise on the plastic art of his homeland before time and the ravages of mental illness take him. Dr. Gyalakuthy sees Măiastra as an opportunity to shake off the rust of the cultural dark ages of Communism and to present the history of art in Romania as he understands it.

Collections: MoMA Library

Published by Pacific, Softcover, 5½ × 7¾ inches, 168 pages, Edition of 250

Four purple books in a stack. The spines are visible.
A book open to the title page. The left page is blank.
Open book with black and white photo on the left and text on the right.
Open book with a photograph of a sculpture on each page.
Open book with a photograph of a sculpture on each page.
Open book with a black and white photo of a building on each page.