Brian James Baer & Yevgeniy Fiks 
Queer(ing) Russian Art [EPUB ebook] 
Realism, Revolution, Performance

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Brian James Baer and Yevgeniy Fiks 

Part One. Theoretical Framings 

1. Between Semiotics and Phenomenology: The Problem of Queer Beauty

Brian James Baer

Part Two. Queer Beauty in Context

2. “In Appearance, Both a Lad and Lass”: Images of Androgyny in Eighteenth-century Russian Art

Olga Khoroshilova (translated by Aleksei Grinenko)

3. The Queer Opacity of Alexander Ivanov’s Nudes: Between Biblical Themes and Greek Love 

Nikolai Ivanov (translated by Aleksei Grinenko)

4. Prostitutes, Pierrots, and Priapus: The Queer Modernism of Konstantin Somov

Brian James Baer 

5. Modernism as the Uncanny of Stalinism: On Alexander Deineka’s Wartime Drawings

Gleb Napreenko (translated by Aleksei Grinenko with Brian James Baer)

6. Carnivalesque Carnality: The Queer Potential of Sergei Eisenstein’s Homoerotic Drawings 

Ada Ackerman

7. Moscow Conceptualism’s Erotic Objects

Yelena Kalinsky

8. Queering Socialist Realism: The Case of Georgy Guryanov

Maria Engström (translated by Ryan Green)

9. A Russian Schizorevolution?: Observations on the New Academy of Fine Arts and Queer Issues in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s

Andrei Khlobystin (translated by Aleksei Grinenko)

10. The Lure of Implied Transgression as Revolutionary Retrospective: The Illicit as la Belleza in Bella Matveeva’s Art

Helena Goscilo

11. Sexual and Gender Dissent in a Bipolar World: Georgy Guryanov and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe

Andrey Shental 

12. “My Nationality Is My Sexuality”: The Post-Soviet, Diasporic, Non-Russian Queerness of Babi Badalov

Roman Osminkin (translated by Innokenty Grekov)

Part Three. Beyond Queer Beauty? Contemporary Post-Soviet Perspectives on Queer(ing) Art, Art History, and Artists 

13. Architecture, Outer Space, Sex: Queering the Kollontai Commune in 1970s Frunze

Georgy Mamedov and Oksana Shatalova (translated by Aleksei Grinenko with Adrienn Hruska)

14. Soviet Union, July 1991

Yevgeniy Fiks

15. LGBT Violence and the Limits of Realism: Polina Zaslavskaya’s Material Evidence

Victoria Smirnova-Maizel (translated by Ryan Green)

16. The Battle over Names: Radical Queer on the Russian Activist Art Scene

Seroe Fioletovoe (with translations by Innokenty Grekov)

17. Queer in the Land of the Bolsheviks, or the Archeology of Dissent

Nadia Plungian (translated by Aleksei Grinenko)

18. A Queer (Re)Claiming of Russian and Soviet Art: An Interview with Slava Mogutin 

19. “Queer and Russian Art?”: A Conversation between Katharina Wiedlack and Masha Godovannaya

20. Queering Sexual Minorities, : An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks

Index