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From the conference programme:

Exhibit A: Russian Art | Exhibitions, Collections, and Archives
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 21–22 March 2014

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.

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).

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

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F R I D A Y ,  2 1  M A R C H  2 0 1 4

13:45  Registration

14:15  Opening remarks

14:30  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)

15:40  Coffee

16:10  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

17:45  Drinks reception

S A T U R D A Y ,  2 2  M A R C H  2 0 1 4

9:30  Registration

10:00  Introduction to Day Two

10:15  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

11:50  Lunch

12:50  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

14:00  Break

14:15  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

15:25  Coffee

15:55  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

17:30  Closing remarks