John Ellis Bowlt
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John Ellis Bowlt is a British art historian specializing in the Russian avant-garde movement of 1900–1930. He has held academic positions at several institutions, including the University of St. Andrews, the University of Kansas, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as an associate professor and later as a professor of Russian. Bowlt is a leading authority on visual culture, Symbolism, and the history of modern Russian art, having written extensively on artists such as Bakst, Benois, Filonov, Kandinsky, Malevich, Somov, and Tatlin.[1,2,3]
- Russian avant-garde
- Symbolism
- visual culture
- modern Russian art
Books
Works by John Ellis Bowlt
- 1988 Varvara Stepanova: The Complete Work Editor and contributor.
- 1977 The Isms of Art in Russia, 1907 - 1930 Text contributions.
- 1982 A Slap in the Face of Public Taste: A Jubilee for David Burliuk And the Cause of Russian Futurism Author of text.
Awards
- 2016 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award