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 3^rd 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
<http://www.mfa.org/calendar/sub.asp?key=12&subkey=3595> or contact Alex
Huff (ahuff(a)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)