Art Exhibitions and Their Audiences, 1860–1930

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

How do art audiences understand what they see? How do artists and curators present art to help audiences understand it? This panel takes a broad look at the presentation and reception of Russian art, both in Russia and in Europe, from the 1860s through the 1920s.The speakers examine three exhibitions of Russian art, the efforts made across cultures and classes to understand what was presented, and the range of perceptions that ensued.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Oleg Minin, Bard College

Papers

• Barbara Radziwiłł and Princess Tarakanova at the Exposition Universelle of 1867: Meanings Lost and Found in Cross-National Perceptions - Maria Chernysheva, Independent Scholar

• Nana in Russia: Painting and Popular Perception in the Early 1880s - Margaret Samu, The New School

• Celebrating the Copy in Early Soviet Exhibitions of Icons and Frescoes - Wendy R. Salmond, Chapman U

Discussant

• Maria Taroutina, Brown U