Lecture by Margaret Samu (Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City)"Naked Female Body in Russia: the Art Market and Criticism of the XIX Centur"

 
05.03.2014
 
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Margaret Samu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She specializes in nineteenth-century art and visual culture in the United States, France, and Russia. Her work deals with issues of assimilation and resistance to the western European artistic tradition in cultures distant from European artistic centers. During the 2010-11 academic year, she is developing parts of her dissertation into a publishable manuscript and researching the 20th-century Russian art collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Margaret’s publications include articles on American sculpture in Woman’s Art Journal and in the volume Women and Things: Gendered Material Strategies (Ashgate, 2009). Her forthcoming articles are “The Nude in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Russian Sculpture” for the journal Experiment, and “Exhibiting Westernization: Nineteenth-Century Russian Artists and the Domestic Art Market” for the journal Nineteenth-Century Studies.