New Research in Russian Visual Culture

Session Submission Type: Lightning Round

Brief Description

This Lightning Roundtable features reports which present new research in Russian visual culture. An exploration of the evolving understanding of Symbolism and the Russian Silver Age, and its kinship with the avant-garde practitioners that succeeded it, is followed by a study of Konstantin Somov’s contacts and collaborations with the Berlin modernist scene. Artistic careers of two of Russia’s notable graphic artists, Nicholas Remizov and Mikhail Drizo, are then discussed in the context of recent scholarship on Russian artists in exile. The report that follows presents A Blue Brick: Festschrift in Honor of John E. Bowlt, a recently published collection of scholarly articles on artistic, folk and performance culture honoring Prof. Bowlt’s esteemed career, and introduces new research on Sergei Eisenstein and James Joyce published in this volume.

Sub Unit

• Arts I: Visual Culture, Material Culture, Applied and Fine Arts

Chair

• Oleg Minin, Bard College

Papers

• From Blue Rose to Blue Brick: Symbolism’s Long Shadow - Wendy R. Salmond, Chapman U

• Distant Collaborations: Konstantin Somov’s Encounters with German Modernism - Djamilia Nazyrova, U of Pennsylvania

• (De)constructing the Russian Avant-Garde: Curatorial Projects, 1960s-1970s - Ekaterina Kudryavtseva, Stetson U

• Russian Artists in Exile: The Works of Nicholas Remizov and Mikhail Drizo of the Early Emigration Period - Oleg Minin, Bard College

• 'Another Brick in the Wall': John E. Bowlt and the Russian Avant-Garde - Yuri Leving, Princeton U