The Great Britain -
Russia Society
The Great Britain -
Russia Society
Soviet art is of course closely bound to Socialist ideology, but it also may reveal something more: a desire for Utopia, dreams about the future and the creation of a new society, encompassing a vision of art that truly belongs to everyone. the course of her lecture Dr Persheeva will discuss pre-Soviet art, including such painters as Goncharova and Larionov; avant-garde movements in the 1910s and the links between avant-garde art and poetry; the artistic shifts introduced by Malevich and Tatlin; the contrast between Suprematism and Constructivism in the 1920s and such painters as Tatlin, Rodchenko, Stepanova and Popova; Soviet Realism from the 1930s to the 1950s; and the “Krushchev Thaw” (mid-1950s-early 1960s) and Soviet post-modernist abstract painting.
Dr Alexandra Persheeva is the academic supervisor of the bachelor of arts degree programme “Contemporary Art" in the Art and Design School at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. She has a Ph.D in Art History, is a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics)-Russia and is the author of popular online-courses dedicated to contemporary culture. She delivers lectures addressed both to HSE students and to the general public on art and the history of art. Dr Persheeva’s current research focuses on finding parallels in art history and watching the way visual structures recombine and evolve through the decades. Using modern techniques, it is possible to identify a wide range of unexpected connections between pieces of classical art and modernist and contemporary art projects.