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Beyond the Typical: Inji Efflatoun's Exhibitions in the USSR in 1970 and 1975
Maghreb Review. 2023. Vol. 48. No. 4. P. 443–456.
This paper will discuss the Egyptian artist Inji Efflatoun (1924–1989), whose first exhibition in Moscow in 1970 took place during the leadership of Gamal Abdul Nasser, and whose second, in 1975, was organized while Anwar Saadat was the president. They were very different in content, structure, complexity, and ambition, and probably in the political and social messages they sought to convey. Their content and political context will be examined here, based on archival material, as well as on Soviet newspapers and journals.
СПб.: Фонд "Международный Фонд поддержки социогуманитарных исследований и образовательных программ", 2025.
Междисциплинарный коллектив исследователей кино, ежегодно проводящий научную конференцию «Кино как действительность» (прошла 2-3 июля 2025 г. в Социологическом институте РАН - филиале ФНИСЦ РАН), представляет сборник статей о роли экрана в формировании социальной реальности. В центре внимания авторов - киновзгляд как способ производства и закрепления смыслов через режимы видения, репрезентации, монтаж образов, институциональную организацию проката ...
Added: October 24, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 20, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 19, 2026
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. ...
Added: October 13, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 4, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 1, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 28, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 21, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 21, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 21, 2026
Шипи Э. А., Kozhemyakin E., Обсерватория культуры 2026 Т. 23 № 5 С. 548–557
This article examines the synthesis of semiotic analysis and Roman Jakobson’s translation theory in the study of film remakes. By comparing L.I. Gaidai’s original film "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession" (1973) with its modern adaptation "Ivan Vasilievich Changes Everything" (2023), the study identifies the mechanisms of cultural and semiotic transformation involved in the "translation" of a film text ...
Added: September 15, 2026
Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
The article explores the unique role of American visual art in Soviet culture. ...
Added: September 10, 2026
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 ...
Added: September 3, 2026
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 ...
Added: August 28, 2026
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 ...
Added: August 19, 2026
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 ...
Added: August 14, 2026
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. ...
Added: August 6, 2026
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 ...
Added: July 28, 2026
Nefedova O., , in: Curating Socialism. A Handbook of International Art Exhibitions 1947–1989.: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2026. Ch. 12 P. 131–139.
Improved political relations between the USSR and Iraq at the end of 1950s
were followed by dynamic growth in their cultural connections.
Collaboration between the two countries began immediately after the 14
July Revolution in Iraq, also known as the 1958 coup d’état, which resulted
in the overthrow of the pro-British Hashemite monarchy and the
establishment of the Iraqi Republic.1 ...
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Nefedova O., The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 2025 Vol. 52 No. 1 P. 32–69
During the 1950s the Soviet Union created a dedicated exchange program intended to attract Arab artists and scholars from around the world. This educational plan was implemented in the USSR through two main strategies: by introducing propaganda and ideology into daily life, and educating art students in the artistic method of Socialist Realism. In this essay I ...
Added: December 3, 2024
Ryazanova A., В кн.: Культурное развитие стран Ближнего, Среднего Востока и Северной Африки: прошлое и настоящее.: М.: Издательство "МГИМО-Университет", 2021. С. 86–97.
The chapter is devoted to the study of the place of Islamic mystical branches in Arabic painting of the 50-70s of the XX century. ...
Added: September 1, 2023
Nefedova O., Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World 2021 Vol. 15 No. 1-2 P. 103–119
The first Iraqi undergraduate and postgraduate students to study monumental art came to Moscow in the early 1960s. Mahmoud Sabri (1927–2012) joined the Vasily Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute in 1960, Shams al-Din Faris (1937–83) and Ahmed al Numan (1939–2013) joined the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in 1961. In ...
Added: November 2, 2020
Nefedova O., Stedelijk Studies 2019 No. 9 P. 1–16
During recent decades, interest in different facets of contemporary Arab art has significantly increased. Although recent developments have played a key role in bringing Arab art into wider focus, gaps remain in scholarly discussions, such as the subject of Arab art and artists in the Soviet Union—a cultural transfer and migration of ideas across time ...
Added: May 19, 2020