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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
 
LOLA KANTOR–KAZOVSKY
 
Last updated: 09/09/2015
 
                                                    
 
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
1. Giovanni Battista Piranesi and the Aesthetical Problem of Roman Architecture.
357 pp. Under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Barasch. Doctorate granted “summa cum laude,” October 2000.
 
 
BOOKS
2. Piranesi as Interpreter of Roman Architecture and the Origins of his Intellectual
World. Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 2006, 310 pp.
The Russian version: Современность древности: Пиранези и Рим (Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie publishing house, 2015).
3. Гробман Ð Grobman. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2014. In Russian with English summary.
 
 
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:
4. Elena Kantor (=Lola Kantor–Kazovsky).“Classical vs. Neoclassical in French Architecture of the Second Half of the 18th Century,” in  Antichnost v kulture i iskusstve posleduyuschikh vekov (Classical Antiquity in European Art and culture), ed. by I. Danilova (Moscow: Sovetsky Khudozhnik, 1987), 153-170 (in Russian).
5. Elena Kantor (=Lola Kantor–Kazovsky). “‘Carcere tandem aperto’: the Painting by Hubert Robert from the Collection of the Pushkin Museum,” in Vek Prosvescheniya. Rossiya i Frantsiya (The Century of the Enlightenment: Russia and France), ed. by I. Danilova and D. Molok (Moscow: Sovetsky Khudozhnik, 1989), 104-114 (in Russian, with French summary).
 6. “Distributio (Oeconomia) and the Graeco-Roman Dispute on Beauty in Vitruvius, De architectura, 1.2,” in Vitruvio nella cultura architettonica antica, medievale e moderna, ed. by Gianluigi Ciotta (Genoa: Athenaeum, 2003), v. 1, 153-163.
 7. “Pierre Jean Mariette and Piranesi: The Controversy Reconsidered,” in The Serpent and the Stylus: Essays on G. B. Piranesi, ed. by Mario Bevilacqua, Heather Hyde Minor and Fabio Barry. Supplements of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), 149–170.
8. “Nicola Giobbe’s Library in the Context of Piranesi Studies,” in Bibliothèques d’architecture / Architectural libraries, ed. by Olga Medvedkova, collection dirigée par Marc Fumaroli (Paris: INHA-Alain Baudry éditeur, 2009), 127-138.
 9. “The Moscow Underground Art Scene in an International Perspective,” accepted for publication in Art Beyond Borders in Communist Europe, ed. by Pascal Dubourg-Glatigny, Gérome Bazin and Piotr Piotrowski (Berlin: Centre Marc Bloch, forthcoming).
10. “On the Eve of the Graeco-Roman Controversy: Pierre Jean Mariette and Bouchardon’s Fountain of the Four Seasons,” in Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Vision, Polemic and Design. Studies in Honour of John Wilton-Ely, ed. Francesco Nevola, forthcoming.
11. “Architectural debate in Eighteenth-century Venice,”in The Companion to 18th-Century Architecture, ed. by Caroline van Eck and  Sigrid de Jong, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming.
12. “Sacral Images and the Avant-Garde: From the Black Square to the Empty Icons,” in Russian Avant-gardes, ed. by Tomáš Glanc. Prague: Arbor Vitae, forthcoming.
13. “Piranesi’s Carceri, the 'Etruscan Question' and the Discourse on Fantasy in 18th--Century Venice,” in An Etruscan Affair: the Impact of Early Etruscan Discoveries on European Culture. London: British museum. (forthcoming)
 
 
 
ARTICLES:
14. Elena Kantor (=Lola Kantor–Kazovsky). “Western Sources of one of the Compositions by V. I. Bajenov,” Tezisy dokladov nauchnykh sessii Muzeya Izobrazitelnykh iskusstv za 1983 god (Abstracts of Lectures given at the Conferences in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts), 1984, 41-44 (in Russian).
 15. Elena Kantor (=Lola Kantor–Kazovsky). “‘In the Wing-Filled Air of Paintings’: Art and Architecture in Ossip Mandelstam’s Poetry,” Literaturnoye Obozreniye (Literary Review), 1991, no. 1, pp. 59-68 (in Russian).
 16. “Dmitry Lion: Jewish Experience and the Philosophy of Drawing,” Jewish Art 20-21 (1995/1996), 146-147. --- The Russion version published in Voprosy Iskusstvoznania (Problems in Art History and Art Criticism) 8 (1996), pp. 157-180.
17. “Piranesi  and Villalpando: The Concept of the Temple in European Architectural Theory,” in Jewish Art 23-24 (1997-1998), 226-244.
18. “Ossip Mandelstam’s Architectural Metaphor of Poetry,” Cahiers du monde Russe 42 (2001), 95-114 (in Russian, with French and English summaries).
19. “Piranesi’s Displeasure of Ruins,” Apollo, September, 2007, 47-53, solicited.
20. “Vladimir Yakovlev in Grobman’s Collection in Tel Aviv and a Jewish Interpretation of the Avant-Garde Myth of Artististic Creation,” Ars Judaica 5 (2008), 93-112.
21. “ ‘La zecca vecchia’: Myth, Archeology and Architectural Design in the High Renaissance Concept of Rustication,” Renaissance Studies 25 (2011), 248-275.
 
REVIEWS
22. “Piranesi’s Paestum.” Review of: John Wilton-Ely, Piranesi, Paestum & Soane (Munich: Prestel, 2013). Print Quarterly 31 (2014): 187-189.
 
 
 
 
 
 
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
ARTICLES AND CATALOGUES COMMISIONNED BY MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
 
23. Elena Kantor (=Lola Kantor–Kazovsky). Nikolai Andriyevitch, (Moscow:  Moscow Palette, 1992), 9 pp.
24. “From Leviathan to Levitan: Michail Grobman within the Context of Russian Conceptualism’s Metamorphoses,” in Michail Grobman. Picture=Symbol+Concept, Herzliya Museum of Art, 1998, pp. 65-69. --- Republished in Michail Grobman. Works 1960-1998, St. Petersburg, Russian Museum, 1999, pp. 12-26.
25.  “Vladimir Yankilevsky and Shmuel Ackerman: Jewish Artists in Paris, 2001,” in Vladimir Yankilevsky and Shmuel Ackerman, Haifa, Mane-Katz Museum, 2001, pp. 28-35.
26. “Vladimir Yakovlev: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” Zerkalo 25 (2005): 148-160 (in Russian)
27. La deuxième avant–garde, 1950–1970, catalogue of the exhibition, Paris, Hotel de l’Industrie  (Paris : Editions Le Minotaure, 2007), 200 pp.  (in French).
28. “The Natural Milk’s Taste: Contemporary Art and the Aesthetic Discourse,” Zerkalo 31 (2008): 7-21 (in Russian).
29. Michail Grobman: The Metamorphoses of Collage, catalogue of the exhibition. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2009 (in English and Russian). 
30. Michail Grobman: Installations sur papier. Paris: Galerie Le Minotaure, 2010. (in French).
31. “The Second Russian Avant-garde and the Artworld of the West in the 1950-s-1960s,” Zerkalo 37 (2011): 61-78 (in Russian).
32. “Facing a Range of Impossibilities: Jews and the ‘Second Russian Avant-Garde’ (1960s – early 1970s),” in Contemporaries of the Future: Jewish Artists in the Russian Avant-garde, 1910-1980. Exhibition catalogue, Moscow Jewish Museum, 2015, pp. 68-79.
 
 
 
CONFERENCES:
1983 “Western Sources of One of the Compositions by V. I. Bajenov,” The Annual Conference of the Young Researchers, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (lecture).
1985 “Classical vs. Neoclassical in French Architecture of the Second Half of the 18th Century,” The Annual Conference of the Researchers of the Pushkin Museum of the Fine Arts, Moscow (lecture).
1987 “‘Carcere tandem aperto’: the Painting by Hubert Robert from the Collection of the Pushkin Museum,” The Century of Enlightenment. Russia and France. 20th Conference in the Memory of Boris R. Vipper, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (lecture).
1991“Jewish Artists in Russian Underground Art, 1960s-80s,” The Third International Seminar on Jewish Art, The Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem (lecture).
1993 “Dmitry Lion,” Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem (lecture)..
1995 “Tradition and Evolution: Jewish Identity in Russian Underground Art, 1950s-1970s,” Lectures in Honor of Mordechai Narkiss, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (invited lecture).
1996 “Piranesi and Villalpando,” The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian and Islamic Art, Fifth International Seminar on Jewish Art, The Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem (lecture).
2000 “The Noble Simplicity of the Greeks: The Development of an Idea,” Conference in Honor of Prof. Moshe Barasch, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (lecture).
2001 “The Concept of Distributio (Oeconomia) in De architectura, 1.2,” International congress Vitruvio nella cultura architettonica antica, medievale e moderna, University of Genoa (lecture).
2003 “Pierre Jean Mariette and Piranesi,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York (lecture). 
2005 "Nicola Giobbe's Library in the Context of Piranesi Studies," Bibliothèques d'architecture: question de sources et de méthodes," Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (lecture).
2005 "From the Roman Republic to the Venetian Republic: The Tuscan/Rustic Order in Rome and Venice," College Art Association Annual Conference, Atlanta (lecture) 
2005 "Rustication in the Renaissance Architecture: the Problems of Meaning," Renaissance Society of America annual conference, Cambridge (lecture)
2005 " Vladimir Yakovlev: A portrait of the Artist as a Blind Man", 14 World
          Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem (lecture)  
2006 "Piranesi's Displeasure of Ruins" College Art Association Annual Conference, 
           Boston (lecture)
2009 “Annio da Viterbo’s Myth of the Ancient Etruscans and Its Influence on Renaissance Architecture,” On Piranesi: in Ghent, international conference (lecture)
2009 “Moscow Underground Art Scene through the Eyes of European Art Critics,”  
          Kunst und das Kommunistische Europa, 1945-1989, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin
2010  “The Architectural Language and the Virgilian Subtext of the Presentation of the
         Virgin to the Temple by Baldassare Peruzzi,” Visual Constructs of Jerusalem,
           international conference Jerusalem (lecture).
2010 “Architectural Metaphor of Legitimate Power in Virgil’s Aeneid and its Influence
           on European Architecture,” Architecture pour la guerre et pour la paix. 
           L’humanisme civil et militaire dans l’Europe du XVIe au XVIIe siècle. Colloque
            organisé par l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art et le Centre André Chastel de   SNRS. Paris (lecture)
2012“ Serlio’s Collaboration with Sansovino and Giulio Romano on the Concept of  
            ornamento rustico,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Washington (lecture).
2013 “The Role of Descartes in the Origins of the 18th-Century Primitivism,” Architecture & Primitivism, symposium, Leiden University.
2015  “Three Versions of Andrea Musàlo’s Architectural Creed”, 4th Colloquium on Architectural Theory at the Werner Oechslin Library Foundation, Einsiedeln, Switzerland: ORDER (Orders of columns): Ordonner, ordonnancer (lecture)
2015   Piranesi’s 'Prisons' and the 'Etruscan Question' in 18th-century Venice. The British Museum. An Etruscan affair: the impact of early Etruscan discoveries on European culture. Fri 29 May & Sat 30 May 20152015.
2015  “On the Eve of Graeco-Roman Controversy.”  Giovanni Battista Piranesi; predecessors, Contemporaries and Successors. Symposium at the Royal Swedish Academy of letters, History and Antiquities, 3-4 September (lecture)