Fourth International Sarabianov Congress of Art Historians


1—2 December 2020

Russian Art Studies amid European Schools: Intellectual History
and Migration of Ideas

Fourth International Sarabianov Congress of Art Historians


Special Project of The Fourth Congress

Global, International and National in the History of Art

Hans Belting
“In Russia there had been no national school”: interviewed by Sarabianov Congress organizers

From World Art to Global Art

Terry Smith
Globality, Internationalism, Regionality, Nationality, Locality, Collectivity, and Individuality in Transition: Principles of Contemporary Art History

Boris Groys
A View of Art History after Its End

Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel
The Time Discordance of Art Globalization [in] a[r]t Work[s]

David Summers
Open-ended multiplicity of histories of art


Schedule

The speakers whose names are highlighted will contribute to the conference by correspondence (the texts and video recordings of their reports will be available at the website of the congress before it opens)


December 1, 2020

Moscow time

Registration of the participants at 10:30
Congress opening ceremony at 10:45

10:45–11:00

Welcome addresses of SIAS Director Natalia Sipovskaya and congress organizers


Session 1:
Chair – Natalia Sipovskaya


11:00–11:20
Massimo Bernabo
A tribute to Russian studies on Byzantine art: 
from the Archeological Institute in Constantinople to Viktor Lazarev

11:20–11:50
Francesco Lovino
With a little help from my friend. Bernard Berenson and Seminarium Kondakovianum

Ivan Foletti
Kondakov’s Legacy: Seminarium Kondakovianum and the Interwar Czechoslovakia

Valentino Pace
Xenia and her Uncle Pavel Muratov (as the Author of Pittura bizantina)

11:40–11:50
Q&A



Session 2:
Chair – Anastasia Loseva


12:00–12:20
Ada Raev
Olga Bazancourt and Gender Discourse of the 1900s – 1910s

12:20–12:40
Lucia Tonini
Ugo Ojetti’s View of Russian Art of 1910

12:50–13:00
Q&A

Break until 14:45



Registration starts at 14:45
Afternoon session starts at 15:00

 

Session 3:
Chair – Ilia Doronchenkov


15:00–15:20
Patrick Flack
With and Without Russia: A Contrasted Look at the Projects of Literary and Art Sciences (1910–1930)

15:20–15:40
Nikolai Plotnikov
Art as Knowledge and Language. On the History of Konrad Fiedler’s Reception in Russia

Q&A

15:50–16:10
Ondřej Sládek
Structural Poetics in Motion: Jan Mukařovský and Roman Jakobson

16:10–16:30
Nadezhda Podzemskaya
The Concept of “Art Sciences” as Seen
by D.S. Nedovich and A.G. Gabrichevsky and Its Origins in Kandinsky and Simmel

16:30–16:50
Jan Zacharias
Ioffé and the Russian Culturology Influences of the Vienna School of Art History

16.30–16:40
Q&A


 

Session 4:
Chair – Nataliya Zlydneva


17:00–17:20
Nikolai Molok
From Le Corbusier to Ledoux: D. Arkin reads E. Kaufmann

Q&A

17:20–17:40
Vadim Bass
Ginzburg and Western Art Studies & Professional Architectural Tradition

Stepan Vaneyan
The Middle in the Wraps: N. Brunov’s Architectural Theory – German Roots, Soviet Shoots and Antique Fruits

17:40–18:00
Q&A



December 2, 2020

Registration of the participants at 10:45
Morning session starts at 11:00

Session 1:
Chair – Nikolay Plotnikov


11:00–11:20
Georg Witte
The Emotional Impact of Art: Theoretical and Empirical Aesthetics around 1920

11:00–11:20
Anatoly Rykov
Soviet Art Studies, or the Flowers of Evil. From Cultural Primitivism to Intellectual Corruption

11:40–12:00
Marina Dmitrieva
Iconological Method in Soviet Art Studies: Critique or Attempt at Dialogue?

12:00–12:20
Marina Toropygina / Marina Lopukhova
Warburg, Method and We

12.20–12:30
Q&A


 

Session 2:
Chair – Marina Dmitrieva


12:30–12:50
Silvia Burini
Juri Lotman’s Semiotics of Culture and Art History

12:50–13:10
Nataliya Zlydneva
Contribution of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School to Russian Art Studies: The Concept of Border/Frontier

13:10–13:30
Matteo Bertele / Tomáš Glanc
Cybertheatre Abroad. The Reception of the Art Practice by Lev Nusberg and Dvizhenie Artist Collective in Divided Europe (1964–1980)

13:30–14:00
Jorge Lozano & Miguel Martín
When the Semiotics of Culture dialogues with History

14:00–14:10
Q&A

Break until 14:45



Registration starts at 14:45
Afternoon session starts at 15:00

Session 3:
Chair – Ekaterina Bobrinskaya


15:00–15:20
Stepan Vaneyan
V. Grashchenkov and the History of Art: Problems of Appropriating World Science

Q&A

15:20–15:40
Ekaterina Viazova
“From Levitsky to Larionov”. Methodological Approaches of Gleb Pospelov to the Study of Russian Art

Q&A

15:40–16:00
Kirill Svetlyakov
The Cult of Heinrich Wölfflin and German Formalism in Soviet Art Studies and Its Consequences for Official Art of the Stagnation Period

Alexei Lidov
Academician Dmitri Sarabianov and Russian Art Studies in World Context

Nina Gurianova
Is There a Dmitri Sarabianov School?

Irina Karasik
Grigory Sternin: “Art Life” as Subject of Study and Methodological Innovation

Q&A



SESSION 4:
Chair – Ekaterina Viazova

Ilya Doronchenkov
Wladimir Weidle: Between Art and Science

16:10–16:30
Rachel Zemlinskaya
Russian Renaissance Tyrants (in concepts of I.I. Ioffe, D.S. Likhachev and Y.S. Lurye)

16:30–16:50
Olga Nazarova
Italian Renaissance Art through the Prism of Soviet Art Studies

16:50–17:10
Olga Subbotina
15th-Century German Book Design: Russian Studies within European Context

Q&A

Discussion