Forthcoming symposium: Selling the Samovar (The British Library, London, 8 July 2013)

Dear all,

The next CCRAC symposium, *Selling the Samovar: Consumerism, Industry and
Commerce in Russian Art and Culture*, is taking place at The British
Library Conference Centre, London on *8 July 2013, 9:30 - 17:30*.

Organised by the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC) and The
British Library, this one-day symposium is generously funded by the Centre
for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS). For booking
information and the full programme, please see the poster attached or
follow the link to the British Library website below.

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/propaganda/events/event145386.html

The association between cultural production and commercial enterprise in
Russia and the Soviet Union has a long history, from the sixteenth-century
trading links which Tsar Ivan IV established with the West, to the
entrepreneurial spirit of the nineteenth-century Peredvizhniki, to Soviet
poster advertising and film. The artistic traditions, inspirations and
influences of such consumerist and commercial practices are manifold – not
only inspired by western models but also deeply engaged with an
inward-looking Russian and/or Soviet culture. This CEELBAS Knowledge
Exchange Symposium aims to engage with the history of consumerism, industry
and commerce in Russian and Soviet art and culture. Thematically, the
symposium will probe the relationships between artistic practice and
professional industry, avant-garde art and commercialism, Soviet Marxism
and consumerism.

The symposium will be an interdisciplinary event that brings together
papers on visual and folk art, textile and exhibition design, film,
literature and culture. In doing so, it aims to highlight the significant
role of industry and commerce in the development of both Russian and Soviet
culture. The cross-period, cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional
makeup of the speakers will create fertile ground for dialogue, and for the
exchange of different research methods and approaches to the study of
Russian art and culture.

The symposium will also highlight the valuable collection of Russian
language sources pertaining to art and culture held at the British Library.
The symposium coincides with the exhibition at The British Library,
*Propaganda:
Power and Persuasion*, which is on from 17 May to 17 September 2013.

With kind wishes,
---
Dr Maria Mileeva
CCRAC Administrator / Early Career Lecturer
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 0RN

Email: [email protected]

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