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]
