Altai Stone Palette in “Altai in the Works of Scientists and Travelers, the 18th – The Beginning of the 20th Century” Publication Project Design (Barnaul, Russia; 2017)

Abstract

The article describes thought core of design made for publication project “Altai in the Works of Scientists and Travelers, the 18th the Beginning of the 20th Century” by Shishkov Altai Regional Universal Scientific Library (Barnaul, Russia), the basic element of which became colors and surface type of the Altaian semiprecious stones. Reproduction of little known pictural works made in portrait genre, rare landscape water-colors, esquisses by Russian and foreign painters lived around this time are also used in artistic design of five-volume issue. On the issue’s editorial board’s idea, selection of illustrations should help to a reader to trace a dynamics of interests took by domestic and foreign researchers and travelers in Altai.