Doctor of Art History

Born in Moscow. Art historian, specialist in traditional and contemporary folk art also in fine, decorative and applied arts. Graduated from Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute. Involved in the problems of the naive art since early 1970-ies.
From 1968 till 1970 worked in the Arts Industry Institute. Since 1970 working in the Department of Contemporary Folk Culture at the Russian Institute for Cultural Research. The Head of the Purchasing Commission for folk arts at the Ministery of Culture of the Russian Federation, member of the juries panel at numerous exhibitions of the naive art. Curator of the national exhibition "Naive Art of Russia" (1997). Author of monographs, articles, notes on the art of the amateur artisits.





Main works on naive art

1. Russkie narodnye kartinki. M., 1972
2. O vzaimootnosheniyah narodnogo i samodeyatel'nogo tvorchestva // Vsesoyuznaya konferenciya po problemam razvitiya sovremennogo narodnogo iskusstva. Stenogramma. M., 1977
3. Vtoroe prizvanie. M., 1983
4. Mudraya pronicatel'nost' // Ivan Selivanov, zhivopisets: Ocherki o hudozhnike. Kemerovo , 1988
5. Samodeyatel'noe izobrazitel'noe i prikladnoe iskusstvo. M., 1989
6. Naifs sovieticus // Internationale de l'Imaginair: Le Catalogue de l'Exposition. Paris, 1988
7. Narodnye kartinki Ivana Nikiforova. // Slovo. 1990. N 11
8. Avangardizm i tvorchestvo hudozhnikov-lyubiteley. M., 1992
9. Slovo ob Anne Zhuravlyovoy // Mesyatseslov Anny Zhuravlyovoy. M.,1994
10. K voprosu o vzaimootnosheniyah naivnogo tvorchestva s traditsiey. Postanovka problemy // Primitiv v izobrazitel'nom iskusstve. Materialy Vserossiiskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferencii. M., 1994
11. Primitiv v narodnom iskusstve. K postanovke problemy // Primitiv v izobrazitel'nom iskusstve: Materialy nauchnoy konferencii. 1995 / Gos. Tretyakovskaya galereya. M., 1997
12. Sovremennoe narodnoe tvorchestvo i kul'turnye traditsii // Orientiry kul'turnoy politiki. N 10. M., 1997
13. Okno v mir prazdnika // Naivnoe iskusstvo Rossii: Katalog vystavki. M., 1997
14. Naivnoe hudozhestvennoe tvorchestvo i ego problemy // Naivnoe tvorchestvo: Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferencii. 1993. Minsk, 1997
15. Naivno li naivnoe iskusstvo? // Kul'tura. 18 febr. 1997
16. Gran-pri - russkomu hudozhniku // Gudok. 7 febr. 1998
17. Konceptsiya vystavki "Naivnoe iskusstvo Rossii" // Sovremennoe naivnoe iskusstvo Rossii: Materialy Vserossiiskoi nauchno-prakticheskoy konferencii. 1999 / Gos. Rossiisky dom narodnogo tvorchestva. M., 1999


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