21 Prechistenka str.
119034 Moscow
Victor Vladimirovich Vanslov
Director
Tel: (495) 201-42-91
Michael Alekseevitch Busev
Deputy Director for Research Work
Tel: (495) 201-31-76
E-mail: nii-arts@yandex.ru
The Research Institute of Theory and History of Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts was established in 1947 as an Academy division to carry out researches into the history of fine arts, plastic art, modern world and home art movements and to publish results of its researches to be accessible not only to the Academy’s institutions, but also to the general public. With an annual average output of 20-30 editions, including books, monographs, albums, catalogues, textbooks on art, the Institute has accumulated a big library contributing both to art history and aesthetic education.
The staff of the Institute numbers four academicians, four corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Arts, as well as 19 Doctors of Art History and 36 Candidates of Art History.
There are the following divisions in the Institute:
- 20th-21st-Century Russian Art;
- Russian Art of the 18th-19th centuries;
- Old Russian Art and Modern Religious Art;
- Monumental Art and Architecture;
- Folk and Decorative Art;
- Design;
- Theory and Problems of Aesthetics;
- Art criticism;
- Foreign art;
- Art Dictionary;
- Computerized Art Information;
- Editing and Publishing Department.
The Institute offers post-graduate programs and the Commission on theses for Candidate’s and Doctor’s degrees.
Annual seminars are arranged on the following topics:
Old Russian Art (led by Ann V. Ryndina); Old Russian Architecture (led by Andrei L. Batalov); Problems of Theory of Art and Aesthetics (led by Oleg A. Krivtsun); 20th Century Western Art (led by Michael A. Busev).
School of Young Art Historians in the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts
Schedule for 2011:
January 19, 2011 – K.S. Petrov-Vodkin and West European “Realisms” of the First Third of the 20th Century
Lecture by E.V. Gribonosova-Grebneva
February 16, 2011 – Archaeology of Old Yaroslavl. New Discoveries
Lecture by Asya Engovatova March 16, 2011 – Fedor Botkin: Parisian from Zamoskvorechye
Lecture by Olga Davydova
April 20, 2011 – Nature, Love and Fantasy: About the Symbols of the Renaissance
Garden
Lecture by Michael Sokolov
June 15, 2011 – Russian Pictorial Photography in 1890-1930
Lecture by I.Y. Chmyreva
November 9, 2011 – Salvador Dali: Nearby and At a Distance
Lecture by M.A. Busev
December 21, 2011 – Museum Display as a Genre of Plastic Art (History, Theory, Modern Practice)
Lecture by M.T. Maistrovskaya
Schedule for 2010:
January 20, 2010 – Alexander Tyshler. Time and Life
Lecture by Vera Chaikovskaya
February 17, 2010 – 20th – Century Visual and Plastic Thinking
Lecture by Lyudmila Monakhova
March 17, 2010 – Open Form in Art. Problems of Modification in the
20th Century Artistic Language
Lecture by Sergei Stupin
April 21, 2010 – Design. The Late 2000s. What is Going to Happen Next?
Lecture by Vladimir Aronov
May 19, 2010 – Methods of Research of the Russian Sacral Plastic Art
Lecture by Anna Ryndina
June 16, 2010 – The Age of the Enlightenment: Dialogue of Philosophy and Art
Lecture by Elena Fedotova
September 15, 2010 – The Fate of an Objective Form in the 20th Century Fine Arts
Lecture by Olga Yushkova
October 20, 2010 – Informal Art in Moscow in the 1960s-Early 1980s
Lecture by Anna Florkovskaya
November 17, 2010 – Origins and Goal of the Landscape Design in the Time of Romanticism. From Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Edgar Allan Poe
Lecture by Michael Sokolov
December 15, 2010 – “Menippus and Aesop” of Diego Velazques. The Obvious And Hidden Meanings of His “Buffoonery” Series
Lecture by Alexander Yakimovich |
