Contact details

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Somerset House

Strand

London

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john.milner@courtauld.ac.uk

 

John Milner studied Art History at The Courtauld Institute of Art in the late1960s, before teaching at Hornsey College of Art in London, and completing his doctorate Russian Constructivism: the First Phase, Tatlin and Rodchenko at The Courtauld Institute of Art. He subsequently tutored students of Fine Art, and Art History, as well as Museum and Galleries Studies up to doctoral level. He is Professor Emeritus at Newcastle University and joined The Courtauld Institute of Art as Visiting Professor in 2007 directing MA and doctoral studies in Russian art and the West. The MA course involves the study of Twentieth Century Russian Art as it was created. Developed and interpreted both inside and outside Russia.

 

He has lectured widely and internationally Cambridge University, The National Gallery, The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate London, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the School of Slavonic Studies, London, as well as Madrid and at Duke University, North Carolina.

 

He has published numerous books including Russian Revolutionary Art, London 1987, Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-garde,Yale University Press, London and New Haven, 1984, [paperback and hardback], A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970, Woodbridge 1993, and Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry, Yale University Press, 1996.    

 

He is an active painter and has organized numerous exhibitions at Newcastle University’s Hatton Gallery. He now works as an exhibition organizer in London and elsewhere, including A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia, at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 28 March-10 June, and Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University 30 June – 15 August 2007.  He acted as an adviser to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on the exhibition From Russia in 2008, and to the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds in March 2008.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS


He is now working on Re-Presenting El Lissitzky, a re-hanging and a a re-interpretation of the extensive collection of works by El Lissitzky in the collection of the Stedelijk an Abbemuseum in Eidhoven, Netherlands, opening there in November 2008.

 

PROGRAMMES TO BE TAUGHT IN THE FORTHCOMING ACADEMIC YEAR


MA: Contacts and Contexts in Russian Art, 1905-1945

 

RECENT / FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS


Published in 2005

'Kirill Sokolov: Never an Emigre' in Tretyakov Gallery, number 3, Moscow 2005, pp.92-95.

 

Published in 2006

'Vasili Kandinsky' in Rossica, 16, London 2006. ISBN 978 1 905345 02 01

 

Published in 2007

A Slap in the Face! Futurists in Russia, London (Philip Wilson Publishers), 2007

‘Rebuilding the Art of the People’ in Art and Social Change, 2007, London, Tate Publishing.

Forthcoming in 2008

 

Re-Presenting El Lissitzky, Eindhoven 2008

Museums of Modern Art as a Phenomenon, to be submitted to Yale University Press, London, 2008