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‘Suddenly I forgot which comes first, 7 or 8’. Making Sense of the Russian Avant-Garde<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Slade Lectures in Fine Art will be given in Michaelmas term 2015 by Professor John E. Bowlt of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. After two years of postgraduate study at Moscow State University he completed his doctorate, on Russian Symbolism, at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and from 1971 onwards has been teaching in the USA. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including American Council of Learned Societies, The British Council, Fulbright-Hayes and National Endowment for the Humanities, and in Los Angeles also directs the Institute of Modern Russian Culture. John E. Bowlt has written extensively on Russian visual culture, especially on the art of Symbolism and the avant-garde, and has curated or co-curated exhibitions of Russian art, including \u201cA Feast of Wonders. Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes\u201d at the Nouveau Mus\u00e9e de Monte Carlo, Monaco, and the State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow; \u201cEl Cosmos de la vanguardia rusa\u201d at the Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, and the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; \u201cL\u2019avanguardia russa, Siberia e l\u2019Oriente\u201d at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence; and \u201cRussian Avant-Garde Theatre: War, Revolution and Design, 1913-1933\u201d at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; he is now preparing a retrospective of the work of L\u00e9on Bakst for the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, in 2016. In addition to the catalogues for these exhibitions, his books include\u00a0The Russian Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934; The Salon Album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky;\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Moscow, St. Petersburg. Art and Culture during the Russian Silver Age.\u00a0<\/em>In 2010, he received the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation for his promotion of Russian culture in the USA.<\/p>\n

The lectures will take place weekly at 5.00 pm on Tuesdays in Lecture Room 3,\u00a0Mill Lane, Cambridge, starting on 13 October and ending on 1 December 2015.<\/p>\n

The Russian avant-garde was a synthetic phenomenon affecting not only the visual arts, but also literature, music, dance, dramatic theatre, fashion, social deportment and material culture. For their inspiration artists such as L\u00e9on Bakst, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kandinsky, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin drew on the most diverse sources \u2013 from Theosophy to structural engineering, from X-rays to children\u2019s drawings, from Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso to graffiti and from nonsense to nudism, subjects which will be discussed during the eight lectures. Reprocessing countless ideas and images, the artists of the Russian avant-garde produced startling artifacts such as Bakst\u2019s ballet costumes, Malevich\u2019s\u00a0Black Square<\/em>, Tatlin\u2019s\u00a0Monument to the III International<\/em>\u00a0and Filonov\u2019s living universe.<\/p>\n

These and other such dramatic experiments in Russian art constitute a primary contribution to the history of Modernism. The twilight aura of Symbolism, the disruption of Cubo-Futurism and the extreme heat of Revolutionary culture generated ideas, movements and styles which undermined traditional values, crossed disciplines and established radical visual codes. The object of this cycle of lectures is to revisit these innovations and to place them in a comparative context — taking due account of philosophical doctrines, the literary and performing arts and socio-political change.<\/p>\n

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