Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art

Profile

Tatiana Ilyina entered the Department of Art History, Faculty of History, Zhdanov State university in Leningrad in 1951 (now St. Petersburg State University). She graduated in 1956 and completed her PhD in 1963. From 1967 on she has been teaching art history at the Faculty of History. In 1980 she finished her second PhD “Ivan Veshnyakov. Role of the genre of portrait in Russian painting of the 18thcentury.” Became a professor in 1984. From 1996 to 2006 she was appointed the head of the Department of History of Art and after the department was separated (into departments of Russian and Western art), she continued as the head of the Department of Russian Art from 2007 to 2011.

Tatiana Ilyina is a renowned academic, she takes part in a number of international conferences.

Tatiana Ilyina is a member of the dissertation council at the Academy of Fine Arts, at St. Petersburg Conservatory and until 2012 was a member of council at St. Petersburg State university.

She is a member of the editorial board for the “Art bulletin” magazine and for a “Mikhail Lomonosov and the Elizabeth time” (St. Petersburg, November 2011) conference. Tatiana Ilyina is also a member of the Artists Union and International Association of Art Historians.

Research interests

Russian art of the 18thcentury.

Teaching

  • Russian art of the 18thcentury (BA)

  • National specific of the Russian art of the 18thcentury. Role of Russian art in the context of European schools (MA).

Tatiana Ilyina has supervised about 30 PhDs.

Publications

9 monographs, including

  • Fine art: from technique to image, St. Petersburg, 2006

  • At the turn. Russian art of the 18thcentury, St. Petersburg, 2010

12 textbooks on Russian and Western art, such as:

  • Russian art of the 18thcentury (reprinted)

  • Russian art (reprinted)

  • Western art (reprinted)

  • Introduction to art history, Moscow, 2003

  • The Russian 18th century: painting and music, Moscow, 2004

  • History of Russian art from the baptism of Rus to the beginning of the third millennium, Moscow, 2001

  • National originality of the Russian art of the 18thcentury. Role of Russian art in the context of European school, St. Petersburg, 2012

She is the author of more than 100 articles. Citation index in the RINTs e-library: 38. For the last 5 years Tatiana Ilyina has led the following academic research: “Art in Russia: paradigms of development in the context of European schools”, “From Classic to contemporary art: historical and theoretical problems, cultural aspect”.