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Jane Ashton Sharp

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


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Books and Catalogues:

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

Evgenii Mikhnov-Voitenko: 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.

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.

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.

With Michael Govan, The Great Utopia:  The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-32. Exhibition Catalogue, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1992).

Chapters in Books, Refereed Articles

“Identity and Resistance: Abstract Painting in the Dodge Collection.” Zimmerli Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (September, 2003)

“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.

"The Russian Avant-Garde and Its Audience: Moscow 1913."  Modernism/Modernity. Vol. 6, no. 3 (September 1999): 91-116.

"Becoming Avant-Garde: Audience Provocation from the 'Donkey's Tail' Exhibition to the 'Target' Debate (Moscow 1912-13)."  Biuletyn Historii Sztuki. Polska Akademiia Nauk. Vol. LX, no. 1-2 (1998), 149-168.

"L'Exercice de la répétition:  les cycles et les compositions sérielles de Nathalie Gontcharova de 1907-11." Nathalie Gontcharova et Michel Larionov dans la collection du Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. Jessica Boissel, ed. Catalogue de l'exposition (Paris, 1995), 178-187.  Republished in Italian translation as “L’esercizio della ripetizione: cicli e le composizioni seriali di Natalija Goncarova dal 1907-al 1911,” Natalija Goncarova e Mikhail Larionov (Milano: Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, 1996).

"Redrawing the Margins of Russian Vangard Art:  Natalia Goncharova's Trial for Pornography in 1910." Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture. Jane Costlow, Stephanie Sandler, Judith Vowles, eds. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, 1997), 97-123.

"The Critical Reception of the '0.10' Exhibition:  Malevich and Benua."  The Great Utopia:  The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-32.  Exhibition Catalogue, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1992), 38-52.  Also published in German, Dutch, and Russian translations in the exhibition catalogues of The Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow.

Images of Aleksei Remizov. Greta Slobin, ed. Exhibition Catalogue, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, (Amherst, 1985).

"Sounds, Noises and Smells: Sensory Experience in Futurist Art."  The Futurist Imagination:  Word + Image. Anne Coffin Hanson, ed.  Exhibition Catalogue, Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1983), 16-29.

Essays

"Contemporary Russian Art and the Newly Historical Russian Avant-Garde." Russian Constructivist Roots:  Present Concerns. Exhibition Catalogue, University of Maryland Art Gallery (College Park, 1997), 14-17

"Sofiya Dymshits-Tolstaya." Dictionary of Russian Women Artists. Delia Gaze, ed. (London: Fitzroy Dearbourne, 1997), 481-483.

"Review Essay of Modern Art:  Practices and Debates, 4 volumes. (New Haven:  Yale University Press and the Open University, 1993)."  Art Bulletin (September 1995): 502-06.

Lectures

2001 (April) The Bruce Museum, Connecticut. Hascoe Lecture Series. “Varieties of Soviet Nonconformist Art.”

2001 (February) “The Question of Pluralism in Soviet Art, 1932-1986.” Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. Invited lecturer:

2000 (November) Denver, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Respondent to panel “Red Orient: Central Asia in Russian and Soviet Visual Culture.”

2000 (September) London, International Congress of Art Historians. Refereed lecture on panel, Other Modernisms: “Neoprimitivism and Vsechestvo:  Russia’s Other Modernism.”

2000 (August) Almaty, Kazakhstan, Soros Center for Contemporary Art. Invited lecture and seminar on “Postmodernism and Other Trends in Art Criticism in the U. S.”

2000 (April), New Brunswick, NJ, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. Respondent to symposium “Looking Back on Modernism: An International Perspective, 1890s-World War 1.”

2000 (March) University of California, Berkeley, Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Invited lecture:  “Modernism as Orientalism: Goncharova, Zdanevich and the Caucasus.”

1999 (December) Institute of Design and Architecture, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Invited lecture for the Senior Design Studio: “Art History and the Art Market in the U. S.”

1999 (October) State Institute for Art Historical Research of the Russian Ministry of Culture, Moscow. Refereed lecture at conference on N. S. Goncharova and M. F. Larionov: “Bezobraznost’ in the Art of Goncharova.”

1999 (June) Kasteev State Art Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Invited lecture at conference on The Avant-Garde and Asia: “A Russian Tahiti? Larionov and Goncharova’s Turn to the East.”

1998 (April) Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies: "Futurism and Blasphemy: Varieties of the Modernist Informe in Late-Imperial Russia, 1910-14."

1997  (November) American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle. Refereed lecture on panel, Thought, Word, and Image in Modern Russian Culture: "Vostokofil'stvo, or the Orientalism of the Russian Avant-Garde."

1997  (February) Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. Invited lecture, Lydia Winston Malbin Lectures in Honor of Anne Coffin Hanson, Conversations on Pictorial Space: "Speculations on the Pictorial Space of the Urban Signboard in Russian Avant-Garde Art."

1997  (February) College Art Association, New York. Refereed lecture on panel, Totalitarian Cultures and Their Audiences: “From Donkey’s Tail to Target: The Audience Provocatrice for Prerevolutionary Russian Vanguard Art.”

 1996  (November) American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,  Boston. Chair of panel: Actresses and Others: Women in Russian Theater.

1995  (November) Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, New Haven. Invited lecture on panel, Futurism and Modernity:  "Futurism and Blasphemy:  The Reception of Natalia Goncharova's Religious Paintings, 1913-14."

1995  (June)  Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Invited lecture at conference, Nathalie Gontcharova et Michel Larionov: "Nathalie Gontcharova:  la femme-artiste au sein de l'avant-garde russe."

1993  (October)  Decatur House, Washington D. C.  Invited lecture for series organized by Georgetown University, St.Petersburg on the Potomac  Russian Arts Festival:  "Eclecticism and Originality in the Art of the Russian Avant-Garde."

1992  (December) CUNY Graduate Center, Department of Art History. Invited lecture:  "Organizing The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-32."

1992  (March) Department of Women's Issues (Frauenreferat), City of Frankfurt-am-Main. Invited lecture: "Goncharova's Representations of the Female Nude and Her Trial for Pornography in 1910."

1989  (September) Participant in Bodies, Stories, Images:  Respresentations of Sexuality in Russian Culture, a symposium at Amherst College.

1988  (November) American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu. Refereed lecture: "The Public Reception of Russian Avant-Garde Art in the Year 1913."

1988 (July)  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven: "Mass Media Imagery from Pollock to Warhol."

1984  (November) American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New York. Refereed lecture:  "Russian Art in America:  Katherine Dreier and the Société Anonyme."

1984  (March) North-East Modern Language Association, Philadelphia. Refereed lecture:  "The Landscape Garden and Golden Age Imagery in Osip Mandel'stam's Kontsert na vokzale and Shum vremeni."

1984  (April) Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven:  "The Futurist Imagination --An Introduction to the Exhibition."

1983  (April) Yale Center for British Art, New Haven:  "The Transformation of the English Landscape Garden in Russia:  Tsarskoe Selo and Pavlovsk."

Symposia Organized

"Russian Modernism: Methods and Meaning in the Post-Soviet Era," Department of Art History, University of Maryland College Park, and The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington D. C. (April 8-10, 1999).



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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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