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Floating institutionality and parainstitutions in contemporary Russian art: premises and forms
Communications. Media. Design. 2023. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 144–155.
Аллахвердиев Т. К.
The article examines artistic practices in Russia and the Soviet Union that, according to the author, are somehow connected to the international movement of institutional critique; the notion of "floating institutionality" is proposed to denote the special nature of the existence of the phenomenon of "institution" in the designated periods and the corresponding local contexts. The question of the connection between early Soviet avant-garde museum projects and unofficial Soviet art of the second half of the twentieth century is raised. Much attention is paid to the question of defining institutional critique with an eye to modern time and the Russian experience.
Kavtaradze S., Коровин И. Ю., Царин В. Е., Журнал ВШЭ по искусству и дизайну 2026 № 11 (3|2026) С. 122–211
The article is dedicated to the history of the design and construction of the Metropol Hotel building in Moscow, primarily its facades. This Art Nouveau monument has become a kind of manifesto of this Russian variant of the style, which involved the most famous architects and artists of the time. It is generally accepted at present ...
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Zabrodina E., Academia. Журнал об искусстве и истории искусства 2026 № 3 С. 489–506
The iconographic theme of the Virgin among the Virgins gained popularity in Early Netherlandish painting in the last third of the fifteenth century, appearing in the works of Hans Memling and Hugo van der Goes, as well as in altarpieces by anonymous Bruges masters, such as the Master of the Legend of St Lucy. It ...
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Zenkin S., P.: Classiques Garnier, 2025.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, visual image (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.) can often be a character in literary and film plots, an element of the fictional world. Its narrative forms and functions are explored from a theoretical and comparative perspective. ...
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Поликарпова Д. А., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 432–441
This article is a review of Natalia Samutina's collection of texts «This Music is Too Beautiful: texts on cinema and more» (Moscow: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, 2025), edited by the author's colleagues, Boris Stepanov and Irina Kaspe. Considering the volume as a «seismograph of time», the author reconstructs the intellectual context of Russian film theory in ...
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Двоскин А. С., Коммуникации. Медиа. Дизайн 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 83–104
The article examines multisensory technologies in contemporary VR and XR art. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that such technologies are increasingly used not only to intensify the viewer’s experience, but also to model the experience of another body. The aim of the article is to show which sensory and technological ...
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The Limits of Control / K. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. — 44 p.: ill. — (one cup book). Series: one cup book. Study guide. 16+. Recommended for students of design and art history, as well as the general public. The three masters featured in this series shaped the ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2025.
Le Corbusier: Light, Concrete, and Asceticism / K. A. Malich. — St. Petersburg: Masters, 2025. The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinct creative logic, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is. The architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris—who adopted the pseudonym Le Corbusier in 1920—appears as ...
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Malich K., СПб.: Мастерс, 2026.
The three masters featured in this series shaped the history of 20th-century architecture. Each possessed a distinctive logic of creative thought, and each influenced our understanding of what modernism is.
Alvar Aalto was a Finnish architect who stood at the forefront of modern architecture and defined the vocabulary of modernism alongside Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
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Суворова А. А., Kazantseva E., Podlednov D., СПб.: Алетейя, 2026.
The authors of the monograph examine three aspects of the phenomenon of marginality in artistic culture from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. The first part of the volume focuses on the processes and actors of the “borderlands” in the context of art and culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The ...
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Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2026.
This volume is a product of the conference “Proizvodstvo, Dokumentatsiia, Interventsiia. Proizvedeniia iskusstva v usloviiakh neofitsial'noi sovetskoi kul'tury 1960-80-kh gg.” (Production, Documentation, Intervention. Works of art in the conditions of unofficial Soviet culture, 1960s-1980s), organized by Ilja Kukuj and Brigitte Obermayr at Munich University (LMU) in November 2018. The conference was financed by Professor Riccardo ...
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Golovlev A., Научный вестник Московской консерватории 2026 Vol. 17 No. 2 P. 352–357
Vincenzina C. Ottomano’s Quando l’opera russa diventò europea is an ambitious and carefully argued study of the reception of Russian opera in Italy and France from the 1870s to the first decade of the twentieth century. The book examines how Russian operatic works were reframed by critics, impresarios, patrons, and institutions and transformed into cultural ...
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Бейн П. В., Дубровская Д. В., Zinchenko S. et al., Институт востоковедения РАН, 2026.
Contrary to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's assertion that "the most beautiful thing in the stars, houses, and deserts is what the eyes cannot see," the authors of this monograph dispassionately test the harmony of beauty in the East through the algebra
of scientific analysis, continuing the work of their first book, "The Beautiful and the Utilitarian: From ...
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Borzenko V., Театралис, 2025.
Творчество Бориса Васильевича Щукина – одна из интереснейших страниц в истории сценического искусства, а для Театра им. Вахтангова и вовсе целая веха, прославившая коллектив в 1920-е – 1930-е годы. Его судьба прослеживается подробно с самых первых лет интереса к театру, участия в любительских кружках подмосковной Каширы, поступления в Вахтанговскую студию и до последних лет жизни. ...
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Irina A. Afanaseva, Pavel S. Sorokin, October 2026 No. 196 P. 69–79
This article examines the development and cultural significance of NFT art in Russia, framing it through the sociological lens of “neo-structuration” theory — a framework that foregrounds individual agency as a driving force within evolving social and technological structures. The authors argue that NFTs have emerged in Russia as a means for young and independent ...
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В сборнике представлены материалы Научно-практической конференции «Царствование Императора Николая I в истории России. К 200-летию восшествия на Престол», состоявшейся в Перми 10–11 июня 2025 г. Конференция была организована Администрацией губернатора Пермского края, Пермской митрополией Русской Православной Церкви, Фондом содействия возрождению традиций милосердия и благотворительности «Елисаветинско-Сергиевское просветительское общество» и Агентством по делам архивов Пермского края на ...
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Конончук В. В., Communications. Media. Design 2025 Vol. 10 No. 2 P. 110–123
This article examines the concept of the medium in contemporary Russian art, focusing on its role as a metaphorical structure. By analyzing how artists use institutional frameworks as their subjects and sets of methods, the article highlights the medium's function as a metaphorical tool for exploring and critiquing post-Soviet culture. ...
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Khokhlova E., В кн.: Современные проблемы Корейского полуострова 2022.: ИКСА РАН, 2022. Гл. 5 С. 279–288.
In the Republic of Korea, contemporary art has taken the path of conceptualism long ago. When a new threat swept across the world and people faced the reality of “lockdowns”, Korean art institutions res: ponded with a series of exhibitions. In 2021, public and private museums in the Republic of Korea presented exhibitions created in ...
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Chukhrukidze (Chukhrov) K. (., e-flux journal 2020 No. 110
In avant-garde rhetoric, as appropriated by contemporary art, the ideas of social engagement and artistic achievement have been almost identical: after art’s selfsublation, its principal goal has supposedly been social engagement. Yet despite the internalization of the avant-garde’s socially oriented legacy, the true episteme and achievement of art since the 1960s has been conceptual surplus ...
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Ssorin-Chaikov N., Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 2013 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 4–18
Ethnographic conceptualism refers to anthropology as a method of conceptual art but also, conversely, to the use of conceptual art as an anthropological research tool. Ethnographic conceptualism is ethnography conducted as conceptual art. This article introduces this concept and contextualizes it in art and anthropology by focusing on the following questions: What is gained by anthropology by explicitly bringing ...
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Ssorin-Chaikov N., Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research 2013 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 166–192
This is a study of audience reactions to the exhibition Gifts to Soviet Leaders (Kremlin Museum, Moscow, 2006) that ranges from comments in the viewers’ response book to the decision of the Kremlin Museum to gift a copy of the exhibition catalog to President Vladimir Putin for his fi fty-fi fth birthday in 2007. My goal is to ...
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Obraztsov A., Suleymanova A., St. Petersburg Annual of Asian and African Studies 2014 No. 2 P. 77–92
The article is devoted to the new literary and artistic project of Orhan Pamuk, including the novel "The Museum of Innocence", the museum exhibition "Museum of Innocence" and the exhibition catalogue "The Innocence of Objects". The authors of the article analyze the relationship between the texts of the project along with their connection to the ...
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