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Department of History of Art

 

09.30 REGISTRATION

10.00-11.00 Opening Keynote Dr Rosalind P. Blakesley, University of Cambridge

Painting at a Distance: Russian Artists Abroad from the Age of Catherine the Great

 

11.00-12.00 Panel 1: Fin de Siecle: Russian Art at the Turn of the Century

(Chair: Dr Galina Mardilovich)

Dr Andrey Shabanov (The Courtauld Institute of Art) Re-presenting the Peredvizhniki in Western European artistic context

Trenton Olsen (Brigham Young University) Fallen Womanhood in the Late Russian Empire

Jane Williams (Reading University) The mosaics of Boris Anrep at ‘The Vale’

 

12.00-12.30 Discussion

 

12.30-13.00 LUNCH

 

13.30-14.30 Panel 2: Exhibiting the West: Russia and the Avant-Garde

(Chair: Dr Maria Mileeva)

Markus Lähteenmäki (The Courtauld Institute of Art) Sergei Diaghilev’s exhibition of Russian and Finnish Artists

Cinthia Willaman (University of Cambridge) Sonia and Robert Delaunay in Germany: Exhibiting with the Russian Avant-Garde

 Dr Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art) Nikolay Punin and the Forgotten Exhibition of Russian Art in Japan. 1927

 

14.30-15.00 Discussion

 

15.00-15.30 TEA

 

15.30-16.15 Panel 3: Art and Revolution: Russian Cultural Exchange Post 1917

(Chair: Prof Mike O’Mahony)

Theodora Clarke (Bristol University) The Société Anonyme: Exhibiting Russian Art in 1920s New York

Eva Bezverkhny (The Courtauld Institute of Art) Filming at Home and Abroad: The Ever-Changing Role of Domestic and International Cinema in Russia Following the October Revolution

Kirill Chunikhin (Jacobs University Bremen) Exhibitions of American Visual Art in Soviet Museums during the Cold War

 

16.15-16.45 Discussion

16.45-17.30 Panel 4: Russian Utopia: Building the Future

(Chair: Prof John Milner)

Anna Bokov  (Yale University) Bauhaus and Vkhutemas: Building the Utopia Together

Henry Milner (artist) & Charles Phu (architect) Tatprom: Utopian Architecture in a Russian Context

 

17.30-17.40 Discussion

 

17.40-18.00 Closing Keynote: Prof John Milner

 

This conference forms part of the CCRAC conference series. For more information please visit http://www.ccrac.hoart.cam.ac.uk.

Organised by Theodora Clarke (PhD candidate, University of Bristol) and Cinthia Willaman (PhD candidate, University of Cambridge). This conference has been kindly sponsored by Russian Art and Culture and the History of Art Department at University of Cambridge.

BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW- £10/£5 (students) HERE

Limited availability. Please RSVP to reserve your place to office@russianartandculture.com

Date: 
Tuesday, 10 December, 2013 - 09:30 to 18:00
Event location: 
Lecture Room 2, Department of History of Art