2025 №1

Theory

Enlightenment

Marina Sviderskaya. English Enlightenment. Part II. Philosophy, Literature, the Novel and Its Genres, the Phenomenon of Laurence Sterne, sentimentalism


Russian Avant-Garde

Alexei Kurbanovsky. “The World Backwards”: Esoteric Traces in the (Russian) Avant-Garde Art


History

Iconography

Nana Mkrtchian. The Church and the Earth: The Role and Functions of Personifications in the Art of Southern Italy of the 11th–12th Centuries


Visuality

НNikolai Molok. Ledoux in the Cabinet of Dr. “Tornatory”: On Some Sources of “Architecture Parlante”


Attribution

Irina Sokolova. In Search of Lost Time: The New Version of Hendrik Leys’ Painting “Mayor Six in Rembrandt’s Studio”


Soviet Art Studies

Danila Liukshin. Surrealism in GAKhN: From the History of the Early Soviet Reception of French Surrealism
Appendix 1. Abstracts of Boris Griftsov’s Lecture “On Surrealism” and the Discussions in GAKhN
Appendix 2. Abstracts of Sergei Romov’s Lecture “From Dada to Surrealism” and the discussions in GAKhN


Cultural Politics

Angelina Lebedeva. “Art Cannot be Controlled, but it Can and Should be Influenced”. Mechanisms of State Regulation in the Art Sphere, 1925–1928


Exibitions

Olga Pevsner. The 1st Russian Art Exhibition in Berlin: A Rehearsal. Moscow, Third Congress of the Comintern, June 1921
Appendix 1. Summary of Archival Documents
Appendix 2. Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Third Congress of the Comintern

Sofia Lavrova. “Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Soviet Russia” in New York (1929): Between Ideology and Art Market

Viktor Belozerov. Exhibitions of Modern Japanese Art and Japanese Artists’ Trips to the USSR (1956–1976)
Appendix 1. List of Exhibitions of Modern Japanese Art in the USSR (1956–1976)

Anna Egorova. Japanese 20th Century Decorative and Applied Art in Soviet Museums: The 1959 - 1960 Acquisitions and the 1958-1960 Traveling Exhibition


Conferences

Evgenia Shidlovskaya. “The 17th Century in Western European Culture: The First Modern Century”. XI Conference in the Memory of E. I. Rotenberg (1920–2011). State Institute for Art Studies, Moscow. 10 December 2024.