The Association of Art Critics invites November 19-20, 2020 to take part in the international conference on the history of Russian art of New and Modern times in the broad context of world culture.
From the beginning of the 18th century, the fine arts and architecture of Russia have been actively involved in international artistic processes. Against the background of the prevailing tendency for the Europeanization of Russian art, the search for independent creative positions also continued for three centuries. Since the 1990s, the discourses of "globalization" and "national identity" have always been present in Russian art, contributing to an interesting sharpening of priorities in the creative practice of masters of different schools, trends and generations. And the rapidly developing intercultural communication in recent decades, combined with new technologies, give additional dynamics to the flow of artistic processes and bring their own characteristics.
At the conference, it is proposed to consider various aspects of these trends, including the issues of influences, borrowings, adaptation, perception and rethinking of foreign artistic experience, as well as the formation of the national specifics of certain phenomena. The work of domestic artists and foreign authors associated with Russian culture is in the field of view of the proposed problems.
A separate section will be devoted to discussing the problems of history and the current state of art history and art criticism.
The conference is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Ilyich Morozov (1941-2010), an art historian and art critic, teacher, and specialist in 20th-century art. It is held on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Ilyich and in the year of the 30th anniversary of the Association of art critics, initiated by A.I. Morozov.
The jubilee conference assumes the maximum coverage of participants and invites, among others, novice specialists and art critics who are not members of the Association of art critics (AAC).
Main topics of the conference *:
- International tendencies and foreign influences in Russian art of the 18th – 20th centuries: theory, practice, problems.
- Russian artists abroad.
- Russian art in the work of European artists and schools.
- Soviet unofficial art of the second half of the 20th century and the international context.
- Contemporary artistic processes in Russia: globalization VS regional specificity; new meanings, means of expression and tools.
- Domestic and foreign art history and art criticism: history, personalities, methodology, problems.
* The proposed list does not exclude additional topics from the participants.
Organizational details
The conference is planned to be held simultaneously in two formats: face-to-face at the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Lavrushinsky Pereulok, 12) and remote — on the Zoom platform. In accordance with the topics and applications received for participation, the organizing committee will form sections and determine the format of each of them. The conference program with information about the venue and format of the sections will be published on the AAC website, distributed over the AAC mailing base and participants' email addresses; links and passwords for connecting to events will be sent to participants by email.
Participation in the conference is free of charge. Payment for travel and accommodation for full-time participation in the conference is provided by the sending party.
As a result of the conference, it is planned to publish an electronic version of the collection of articles with registration in the Informregister. The collection will be placed in the scientific electronic library elibrary.ru and registered in the scientometric database of the Russian science citation index (RSCI).
To participate in the conference, you should register before October 12, 2020 at the link: https://forms.gle/fDvPkN6iV21o8Pgi9.
All correspondence related to the conference — questions, materials, etc. — please send to the address: 3ages.conference2020@gmail.com.
All-Russian Public Organization "Association of Art Critics"
State Tretyakov Gallery