Culture Connection: Russian Realism: Kramskoy, Repin, Surikov, Vereshchagin

Molly Brunson is associate professor of Russian literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. She writes and teaches broadly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian literature and art history, theories of realism, and interart relations. Her book, Russian Realisms: Literature and Painting, 1840–90, is forthcoming from Northern Illinois University Press (2016). At the Clark, Brunson will continue work on a second book, Russian Points of View: Perspective in Art and Literature, 1820–1940, which considers the history of western and native perspectival systems in Russian culture, from the rise of national artistic traditions in the nineteenth century to the avant-garde and socialist realism of the twentieth.