Anatoly Rykov
Russian professor, art historian, and theorist · Russia · On the map · Writers · Born 1978 · age 48
Anatoly Rykov is a Russian art and political theorist, art historian, and professor at Saint Petersburg State University. In his numerous writings, Professor Rykov argues that leftist projects in art and culture often employ repressive and totalitarian concepts and metaphors.
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He introduced the notion of “radical conservatism” in order to explain this phenomenon in the theoretical matrix of the avant-garde and its postmodern interpretation. He has written on a range of subjects in Renaissance, 18th, 19th and 20th century art.