SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3rd, 9 A.M. – 3 P.M.
SYMPOSIUM in conjunction with “DESIGNING THE
MODERN UTOPIA:
SOVIET TEXTILES FROM THE LLOYD COTSEN COLLECTION” at the MUSEUM
OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
A symposium on propaganda textiles and the early
Soviet
cultural context will be held the morning of Sunday, December 3rd
in
Remis Auditorium at the Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston.
The event is free and open to the public, and no prior registration is
required.
Speakers will include Pamela
Kachurin of Duke University and curator of the
exhibition Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles
in Lloyd Cotsen Collection, on Soviet textiles in the context of
Soviet
visual culture; Michael O’Mahoney of the University of Bristol on
sports in
Soviet culture; Jacqueline Atkins, of the Allentown Museum of Art, on
textiles
and propaganda; Terry Martin, of Harvard University, on utopianism in
the late
1920s and 1930s; and Vida Johnson of Tufts University, who will
introduce
“Enthusiasm” by Dziga Vertov (USSR, 1921, 67 minutes) a Soviet film to
be
screened in the afternoon.
Tickets are required for the film only ($8 / $9),
and
available through Remis Box Office (617-369-3306)
or
online at mfa.org. For further information please go to http://www.mfa.org/calendar/sub.asp?key=12&subkey=3595
or contact Alex Huff
(ahuff@mfa.org;
617.369.3976).
SCHEDULE
9:00
a.m.: Dr.
Pamela Kachurin, Guest
Curator of Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles
in Lloyd Cotsen Collection; Assistant Visiting Professor, Duke University
Topic: Soviet Thematic Textiles and their Visual
Context,
1920s-1930s
9:40 a.m.: Dr. Michael
O’Mahoney, Lecturer in
the History of Art, University
of Bristol, UK
Topic: “Fizkult-Hurrah!:”
The Sports Theme in Soviet Art between the Wars
10:20-10:30 a.m.: BREAK
10:30 a.m.: Jacqueline Atkins,
The Kate Fowler Merle-Smith Curator of
Textiles, Allentown
Museum of Art and curator of Wearing
Propaganda: Textiles on
the Home Front in Japan,
Britain,
and the United States 1931-1945
Topic: Propaganda textiles
11:10 a.m.: Dr. Terry Martin,
Department of
History, Harvard
University
Topic: Utopias: Conflicting Visions of
Revolutionary
Transformation
Noon-1:30 p.m.:
BREAK
1:30-3:15 p.m.: Dr. Vida
Johnson, Slavic Department, Tufts University
Topic: Introduction to screening of "Enthusiasm"
by Dziga Vertov (USSR, 1921, 67 minutes)