Forthcoming CCRAC conference: EXHIBIT 'A'. Russian Art: Exhibitions, Collections and Archives

Dear all,

Please find below the details of the second international joint 
conference of the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC) and the 
Department History of Art (Faculty of History), Moscow Lomonosov State 
University. Online booking is now open (go to: 
http://ci.tesseras.com/internet/shop). Please scroll down for more 
information or download the attached conference poster.

Further information can be found on the CCRAC website here: 
http://ccrac.hoart.cam.ac.uk/ai1ec_event/exhibit-a-russian-art-collections-exhibitions-and-archives/?instance_id=114

Best wishes,

Nicola Kozicharow


EXHIBIT ‘A’. Russian Art: Collections, Exhibitions and Archives

14.15 – 17.45, Friday 21 March 2014 (with registration from 13.45)‎
10.00 – 17.40, Saturday 22 March 2014 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset 
House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

EXHIBIT ‘A’. Russian Art: Exhibitions, Collections and Archives, is the 
second conference in an on-going collaborative project between Moscow 
Lomonosov State University and the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art 
Centre (CCRAC). Speakers will explore contemporary and historical 
practices of exhibiting and collecting Russian art and the potential of 
collections, exhibitions and documentary archives as important material 
resources and objects of study in their own right.  The conference is 
also intended as a forum through which to showcase important but less 
familiar collections of Russian art and documentary material located 
inside and outside of Russia. It is conceived without chronological 
boundaries, and papers will address topics ranging from the earliest 
instances of collecting, exhibiting and writing about Russian art to 
contemporary practice in these three areas.

Ticket/entry details: £25 (£15 students, Courtauld staff/students and 
concessions)

BOOK ONLINE: http://ci.tesseras.com/internet/shop or send a cheque made 
payable to ‘The Courtauld Institute of Art’ to: Research Forum Events 
Co-ordinator, Research Forum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset 
House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, stating ‘CCRAC conference’.

Organised by Natalia Budanova (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Jenn 
Brewin (University of Cambridge) in collaboration with Moscow Lomonosov 
State University and the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre (CCRAC), 
with additional support from the Russian Art World (РХМ).

PROGRAMME

21 March 2014
13:45 – 14:15 Registration

14:15 – 14:30 Opening remarks and housekeeping announcements
14:30 – 15:40 Session 1: Collecting Russian religious and folk art - 
Chair: Nicola Kozicharow (University of Cambridge)

Engelina Sergeevna Smirnova (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
collection of antiquities in sixteenth-century Russia: motivations and 
methods

Aleksandr Sergeevich Preobrazhenskii (Moscow Lomonosov State 
University), Icon collections of Moscow Old Believers in the early 
nineteenth century: evidence of owners’ inscriptions

Valery Stefanovich Turchin (Moscow Lomonosov State University), 
Collectors of lubki [Russian popular prints] and the development of the 
avant-garde in Russia (In Russian)

Discussion – 25 minutes


15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 – 17:45 Session 2: Collections and exhibitions in 
eighteenth-century Russia  - Chair: Natalia Budanova (The Courtauld 
Institute of Art)


Andrey Aleksandrovich Karev (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
portrait gallery in eighteenth-century Russia as an ensemble: a 
typological aspect

Zalina Valerievna Tetermazova (Moscow Lomonosov State University), 
Collecting Russian portrait engravings from the age of Peter to the 
twentieth century: an outline of the phenomenon and its main features

Vera Sergeevna Naumova (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The art 
collection of Count K. Razumovskii: the history of the collection’s 
formation and composition

Rosalind P. Blakesley (University of Cambridge), Exhibiting Russian 
success?: the 1770 exhibition at the Imperial Academy of Arts

Discussion – 35 minutes


17:45 Drinks reception


22 March 2014

9:30-10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:15 Introduction to Day 2

10:15 – 11:50 Session 3: East-West in dialogue in Imperial Russia - 
Chair: Rosalind P. Blakesley (University of Cambridge)

Mikhail Mikhailovich Allenov (Moscow Lomonosov State University), ‘The 
Appearance of Christ before the People’ in 1858 as a symbol and symptom 
of the historical period  (In Russian)

Andrei Andreevich Nikol’skii (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
monumental decorative painting of the interiors of the Museum of Fine 
Art in Moscow: the final design and new archival evidence

Louise Hardiman (University of Cambridge), Silver, Silks and ‘Smalti’: 
Russian Decorative Art and the South Kensington Museum in the late 
Nineteenth Century

Olga Vladislavovna Furman (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
legacy of Natalia Goncharova, its fate and new discoveries

Discussion – 35 minutes


11:50 – 12:50 Lunch

12:50 – 14:00 Session 4: New State, New Art: collections and exhibitions 
in the Early Soviet period - Chair: Maria Mileeva (The Courtauld 
Institute of Art)


Natalia Murray (The Courtauld Institute of Art), The Winter Palace or 
Palace of the Poor: the Hermitage Museum in 1917-1919

Aleksandra Petrovna Salienko (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
Fate of the Silver Age in the 1920s: Exhibitions of non-proletarian art

Viktoria Victorovna Devdariani (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
first exhibition of OST in Moscow, 1925

Discussion – 25 minutes

14:00 – 14:15  Comfort break

14:15 – 15:25  Session 5: Centre and Periphery: representing the Soviet 
nationalities in Moscow - Chair: Aliya de Teisenhausen

Alina Anatalievna Platonova (Moscow Lomonosov State University), The 
Agricultural and Domestic Crafts Exhibition in Moscow in 1923: a testing 
ground for new ideas in architecture

Galina Elbrusovna Abbasova (Moscow Lomonosov State University), Decades 
of national art from the Central Asian republics in Moscow and Leningrad 
in the 1930s: a historic reconstruction

Jenn Brewin (University of Cambridge), The expansion of the department 
of the Soviet East at the State Museum of Oriental Cultures in the 1930s

Discussion – 25 minutes

15:25 – 15:55 Coffee break

15:55 – 17:30 Session 6: Russian art abroad - Chair: John Milner (The 
Courtauld Institute of Art)

Nicholas Bueno de Mesquita (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Conflicting 
narratives. The disputes over the 1971 Hayward Gallery exhibition ‘Art 
in Revolution’

Elena Zhukova (Moscow Lomonosov State University), Boris Golopolosov: 
artist's existential loneliness and posthumous recognition

Galina Mardilovich (Independent Researcher), A Case Study in Artistic 
Exchange: Russian Prints at the British Museum, 1926

Willem Jan Renders (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven), The exhibition Lissitzky 
– Kabakov on Tour: Eindhoven, St Petersburg, Moscow and Graz

Discussion – 35 minutes

17:30 – 17:40 Closing remarks

17:40 Conference ends

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