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Twentieth Century Art: Names, Movements and Issues
Coordinator: Tatiana Bykovskaya (bykovskaya@proarte.spb.ru)
This lecture series is a general, introductory course, intended for a wide audience.
The lectures are held in the lecture hall of the State Russian Museum at the Engineers' Castle, every Monday from September to May.
This series of lectures deals with the works of well-known artists and architects and with the main movements and issues in 20th-century art. The lectures are not narrowly specialized and are intended for the widest possible audience - students, postgraduates, art historians and critics, museum staff, teachers, and anyone with an interest in contemporary art.
In 2000-2001 the following topics will be addressed:
- Russian art as seen from the West and from inside Russia. Ekatrina Degot'
- Jackson Pollock. Pepe Carmel (New York, USA; this lecture ties in with an exhibition to be held at the Hermitage)
- Techno- and pyscho- in video art. Alexander Borovsky
- Postfeminist art. Olesya Turkina
- Realism and the baroque in engaged art. Alfred Hrdlichka. Ivan Chechot
- Ivan Puni. Irina Karasik
- 1900-1910: the decade in art. Arkady Ippolitov
- The institutional history of 20th-century Russian art. Ekaterina Degot'
- The artist as shaman: from Beues to Prigov. Alexander Borovsky
- Berlin as an architectural scene at the turn of the century. Ivan Chechot
- Sir Ernst Gombrich: histories of art and modern art criticism. Ekaterina Andreeva
- Giacometti. Alexey Leporc
- The exhibition season in Paris: winter 2000 - spring 2001. Tatiana Mozhenok
- Creative pairs: male-artists and female-artists in 20th-century Russian art. Ekaterina Degot'
- The pain threshold in modern art: who hits the hardest. Alexander Borovsky
- The phenomenon and problem of the great artist in classical modernism. Incidences involving Paul Klee. Ivan Chechot
- Rozalinda Kraus: the evolution of the theory of modern art over the 1980s and 1990s. Ekaterina Andreeva
- Collage/montage: assembling reality/assembling oneself. Viktor Mazin
- Cynicism as «overall style» in the work of Gerg Gross. Ivan Chechot
- Personality in modern art: Warhol, Beues, Kulik. Alexander Borovsky
- Art and politics in Russia in the 20th century. Ekaterina Degot'
- Yves Klein. Ekaterina Andreeva
- Images of progress in modern and postmodern art. Ivan Chechot
- Manifesta. Viktor Miziano
- Closer to the body: the new corporeality. Alexander Borovsky
- The Peredvizhniki from a modern point of view. Ekaterina Degot'
- Semantics and (or) aesthetics. The life and work of Kurt Shwitters. Ivan Chechot
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