Symposium: Art in Russia, 1770-1920

[Molly Brunson]

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Department of the
History of Art at Yale University are pleased to invite all who are
interested to the symposium "Art in Russia, 1770-1920."


ART IN RUSSIA, 1770-1920
A Symposium at Yale
March 24-25, 2011

All symposium events to be held in the Loria Center, Room 351 (190 York St.,
New Haven)

THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2011
5:30-6:30 PM
Keynote Address
Rosalind Blakesley (History of Art, University of Cambridge)
³Picturing Adolescence in Imperial Russia: Dmitry Levitsky's Smolny
Portraits, 1772-1776²

FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 2011
9:00 AM-10:30 AM - Session 1: Criticism and Interpretation
Margaret Samu (Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary
Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art), ³Realist Critics and the Female Nude in
Nineteenth-Century Russia²
Janet Kennedy, (Art History, Indiana University), ³The Making of a Modern
Monument: Paolo Trubetskoi's Alexander III and the Perils of Interpretation²

10:50-12:20 PM - Session 2: Evolving Genres
Molly Brunson (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University), ³Painting
History, Realistically²
Aglaya Glebova (Art History, University of California, Berkeley), ³Beyond
Color: Arkhip Kuindzhi¹s Landscapes²

1:30-3:00 PM - Session 3: Modern Icons
Wendy Salmond (Art History, Chapman University), ³ŒRussia¹s Last Religious
Painter:¹ Victor Vasnetsov and the Late Icon²
Maria Taroutina (Art History, Yale University), ³Triangulating Modernism:
Icons, Vrubel and Soviet Constructivism²


The symposium is free and open to the public.

The symposium is sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at
Yale University, the Stanley T. Woodward Lectureship, the European Studies
Council, with a Title VI National Resource Center grant from the US
Department of Education, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
and the Department of the History of Art.

For further information, please contact Molly Brunson
(molly.brunson at yale.edu <http://molly.brunson@yale.edu> ) or Maria Taroutina
(maria.taroutina at yale.edu <http://maria.taroutina@yale.edu> ).


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Molly Brunson
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Yale University
2699 Hall of Graduate Studies
P.O. Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520­8236
Tel: 203.432.7023
Email: molly.brunson at yale.edu <http://molly.brunson@yale.edu> 

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