Book Artists at the Crossroads of Epochs and Styles Authors Nina Panina NSU; NSUADA Natalya Bartosh Novosibirsk State University image/svg+xml Irina Shavshina NSUADA Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.62.1540 Published 2019-12-04 Issue No. 62 (2019): stylistics XX Section Articles How to Cite Book Artists at the Crossroads of Epochs and Styles. (2019). Project Baikal, 16(62), 42-45. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.62.1540 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: “beautiful book”; Morris; Beardsley; Bilibin Abstract The nature of the phenomenon of the «beautiful book» is usually described in the categories of style. This allows to clearly identify the problems that in our time stand in the way of Russian art critic of book graphics. The origins of these problems lie in a constructive (functional) approach to it provided by William Morris’s theory of the “beautiful book”. In Russia this approach has been established due to Ivan Bilibin and it remains the main way to consider the book graphics in Russian art study.