Ilia Doronchenkov

European University at St. Petersburg

June–August 2016

Ilia Doronchenkov holds positions as a professor of art history at the European University at St. Petersburg and the Repin Art Institute (Russian Academy of Fine Arts). He has published extensively in Russian and English on Russian and Soviet attitudes and appropriations of Western art at the turn of the twentieth century, including an edited anthology entitled Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s-mid 1930s. At the Clark, Doronchenkov’s project will contextualize the Russian right-wing’s discourse on Modern foreign art between 1890 and the 1910s, as well as examine how these historic anti-Western responses relate to the cultural climate in Russia today.