DSc in Arts

Education:
Graduated from the Faculty of History (Department of History and Theory of Art) of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1988.

PhD thesis:
The Interaction of Poetry and Painting in Russian Cubo-Futurism (Lomonosov Moscow State University, academic supervisor D.V. Sarabyanov, 1993)

DSc (Habil.) thesis:
The Problem of the Boundaries of Art in the Russian Avant-garde of the Late 1910s — Early 1920s (2005)

Research interests:
Russian and European art of the 20th century, Russian avant-garde, Italian Futurism; unofficial art in the USSR; conceptualism, modern art.

Professional service:
Member of the editorial boards of the journals: Art Studies (since 2016), The Original. Issues of Attribution and Restoration (since 2023).
In 2001, received a grant from the Artslink Foundation (USA). The research project is Performance Art.
In 1996, received a grant from the Getty Foundation Grant Program for Scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. The research project is Moscow Conceptualism and American art (popart, conceptualism, performance art).

Honorary titles and awards:
The prize of the “U-Art Foundation: You & Art” for the book “Strangers? Unofficial Art: Myths, Strategies, Concepts”.

Other information:
Member of the Kandinsky Prize Jury in 2007−2009; 2013–2015.

Teaching activity:
In 1996-1997, gave lectures on the history of Russian art at the State Literary Institute and at Moscow State University (Faculty of Journalism).

Academic publications (17 in total, including 8 monographs):

Monographs:

  • The Soul of the Crowd: Art and Social Mythology. Moscow, Kuchkovo Pole Publ., 2018. 280 p.
  • Strangers? Unofficial Art: Myths, Strategies, Concepts. Moscow, Art-Media Publ., 2013. 496 p.
  • Russian Avant-garde: The Boundaries of Art. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2006. 294 p.
  • Russian Avant-garde: Origins and Metamorphoses. Moscow, Piataia strana Publ., 2003. 302 p.
  • Futurism and Cubofuturism. Moscow, Olma-Press Publ.; Galart Publ., 2000. 174 p.
  • Futurism. Moscow, Galart Publ., 1999. 192 p.
  • The Early Russian Avant-garde in the Context of Philosophical and Artistic Culture of the Turn of the Century. Essays. Moscow: State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 1999. 245 p.
  • Conceptualism. Moscow, Galart Publ., 1994. 216 p.

Collective works (editor):

  • Russian Art Studies Among European Schools: Intellectual History and Migration of Ideas. Collection of the materials from the IV Sarabyanov Congress of Art Historians, ed. by E.A. Bobrinskaya, A.S. Korndorf, A.S. Loseva. Moscow, State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 2025. 448 p.
  • The Boundaries of the Norm: The Transformation of Humanism in Russian and European Culture of Modern and Contemporary Times: Collection of articles, ed. by E.A. Bobrinskaya, A.S. Korndorf, A.S. Loseva; translated from English by A.A. Zubov, translated from Italian by K.G. Miskaryan. Moscow, State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 2021. 520 c.
  • The History of Art and Rejected Knowledge: From the Hermetic Tradition to the 21st Century: Collection of articles, comp. E.A. Bobrinskaya, A.S. Korndorf; translated from English by A.A. Zubov. Moscow, State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 2018. 416 p.

Articles:

  • Radiant Painting, Radiant Matter and Radiant Energy: Science and Parascience. Khudozhestvennaya kultura, no. 4, 2024, pp. 452–525. https://doi.org/10.51678/2226-0072-2024-4-452-525
  • Mikhail Larionov's Radiance and the Fourth Dimension. Iskusstvoznanie, no. 1, 2024, pp. 24−75.
  • New Anthropology in Works of Vasily Chekrygin. Arts. 2022. № 11 (86). https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11050086.
  • Mikhail Larionov: Vision / Imagination. Iskusstvoznanie, no. 3, 2022, pp. 10−61.
  • Mikhail Larionov's Rayonism and Italian Futurism. Matter and Emptiness. Iskusstvoznanie, no. 3, 2020, pp. 10–39.
  • Mikhail Larionov’s Rayonism and the Scientific Mythologies of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. Venezia Arti, no. 29, 2020, pp. 127−136. https://doi.org/10.30687/VA/2385-2720/2020/01/007.