“Queer(ing) Art of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Emigration, 1890s—1940s,” a lecture by Pavel Golubev

The talk will explore the evolution of the homosexual narrative in Russian art through the lens of gender and sexuality studies. It details how artists navigated the complex interplay of societal norms, personal identification, and creative expression and how the shifts in political and cultural landscapes influenced the representation and perception of themes and subjects in art referring to same-sex love, desire, and sexual identity from the late 19th century to the 1930s.