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Jane Ashton Sharp

Associate Professor
Twentieth Century Art, Russian and Soviet Art, Soviet Nonconformist Art
Ph.D. Yale University

photo of Dr. Sharp near Nukus, Uzbekistan

Biographical Information:

Dr. Dr. Sharp is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and cover of New Acquistions from Central Asia exhibit programResearch Curator of the Dodge Collection at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She is currently preparing with graduate students a second exhibition of abstract painting from the Dodge Collection for the autumn of 2002. Other exhibitions have drawn on recent additions to the collection from Central Asia and a retrospective of work of Eugenii Mikhnov-Voitenko. These exhibitions are coordinated with courses offered by Dr. Sharp on specific themes in Russian and Soviet art history.

Jane Sharp  & group at CIHA

Toshiharu Omuka, Neil McWilliam, John Clark and Jane Sharp at CIHA, "Other Modernities", London 2000



Recent Publications:

Russian Modernism Between East and West: Natalia Goncharova and the Moscow Avant-Garde, 1905-1914.  (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“editor of Zimmerli Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, Soviet Nonconformist and Russian Art (September 2003)

Evgenii Mikhnov-Voitenko: Selections from the Norton and Nancycover of Natalia Goncharova Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Exhibition Catalogue, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2001.

New Acquisitions from Central Asia: Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Exhibition Catalogue, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2001.

 “K probleme bezobraznogo v tvorchestve Natalii Goncharovoi.” N. Goncharova I M. Larionov (Moscow: Nauka, 2001), 43-54.

"Natalia Goncharova: Lives of the Artist." Amazons of the Russian Avant-Garde. John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, eds. Exhibition Catalogue, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Berlin, 1999), 155-83. Republished as the sole essay in Natalia Goncharova: A Pioneer of the Russian Avant-Garde. Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv, 2000.

Realities and Utopias: Abstract Painting in the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of  Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Exhibition Catalogue, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, 2000.

Longer list of publications

russian newspaper article about Dr. Sharp
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Contact:
    Phone: 732-932-0122 Ext.19
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Office Hours:
 

Thursdays 1:00pm-2:30pm
By Appointment


Current Interests & Research:

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Art in the postwar Soviet Period

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Late 20th-century abstract painting in the former Soviet Union

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Russian avant-garde painting before the revolution


Undergraduate Classes Taught:

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Russian Avant-Garde Art Movements of the Twentieth Century

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Soviet Art, Nonconformist and Other; Modernism between East and West: Central and East-European Art 1900-1990.

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Sculpture "in the Expanded Field;" Conceptual Art

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20th Century Art of the Soviet Republics.


Graduate Classes Taught:

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Theories of the Avant-Garde

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Utopias and Realities: The Social Uses of Art in Central and Eastern Europe

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Cubisms/Futurisms

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Primitivism and Difference

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Abstract Painting "Once Removed;" Orientalism








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