Margaret Samu
{{Short description|Art historian specializing in Russian art}}
Margaret Samu is an art historian who specializes in the art and design of 18th- and 19th-century Russia. She teaches at The New School's [https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/ Parsons School of Design] and lectures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She previously worked in the [https://as.nyu.edu/departments/russianslavic.html/ Russian and Slavic Studies Department] at New York University, Stern College for Women, and in the City University of New York system.{{cite web|url=http://aseees.org/membership/margaret-samu|title=Margaret Samu - ASEEES|website=Aseees.org|accessdate=6 December 2017}}
Samu is an active member of the Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and Architecture [http://shera-art.org/(SHERA)], which she served as president from 2013 until 2015.{{cite web|url=https://ncsaweb.net/2015/04/20/qa-margaret-samu|title=Margaret Samu|website=Nineteenth-Century Studies Association|date=20 April 2015 |accessdate=30 August 2022}} She is a member of the Organizing Committee of the [https://jordanrussiacenter.org/19v-a-working-group-on-19th-century-russian-culture/ 19v Working Group on Nineteenth-Century Russian Culture, Literature, and the Arts], and co-organizes the 19v Art History Seminar.{{cite web|url=https://jordanrussiacenter.org/19v-a-working-group-on-19th-century-russian-culture/|title=19v A Working Group on 19th-Century Russian Culture - NYU Jordan Center|website=jordanrussiacenter.org/|accessdate=17 September 2022}}
Samu is a specialist in Russian art.{{cite web|url=http://aseees.org/membership/margaret-samu|title=Margaret Samu - ASEEES|website=Aseees.org|accessdate=6 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty.aspx?id=4e54-6377-4e7a-5532|title=Margaret Samu|website=Newschool.edu|accessdate=6 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://eu.spb.ru/en/news/13181-lecture-by-margaret-samu-metropolitan-museum-of-art-in-new-york-city-naked-female-body-in-russia-the-art-market-and-criticism-of-the-xix-centur|title=Lecture by Margaret Samu (Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City)|website=Eu.spb.ru|accessdate=6 December 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://veniceconference.com/speakers/margaret-samu|title=Margaret Samu|website=Venice Conference 2017|accessdate=6 December 2017}} In 2016, she was awarded the Mary Zirin Prize by the Association for Women In Slavic Studies.{{cite web|url=http://adht.parsons.edu/blog/faculty-spotlight-margaret-samu-awarded-mary-zirin-prize/|title=Faculty Spotlight: Margaret Samu Awarded Mary Zirin Prize|website=Adht.parsons.edu|date=5 December 2016 |accessdate=6 December 2017}}
Selected publications
- “Karl Briullov’s Last Day of Pompeii at the Paris Salon of 1834.” The Art Bulletin 103, no. 2 (June 2021). 77–103. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00043079.2021.1847579 DOI: 10.1080/00043079.2021.1847579]
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/ninecentstud.25.2011.0161 “Exhibiting Westernization: Aleksei Venetsianov’s Nudes and the Russian Art Market 1820-1850.”] Nineteenth-Century Studies 25 (2015). 131–147.
- “ ‘Serving Art…’ Artist and Model in the Nineteenth-Century Russia Art World.” Iskusstvoznanie. [http://artstudies.sias.ru/upload/2014_3-4_434-447_shamu.pdf “ ‘Служа искусству…’ Художник и модель в русской художественной культуре XIX века.”] Искусствознание] 3-4 (Autumn 2014). 434–447.
- [https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781609091620/from-realism-to-the-silver-age/#bookTabs=1 From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture.] DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014 (co-editor and contributor).
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3566511 “Evelyn Beatrice Longman: Establishing a Career in Public Sculpture.”] Woman's Art Journal 25, no. 2 (Fall 2004/Winter 2005). 8–15.
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External links
- {{cite web|url=https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/margaret-samu/|title=Margaret Samu|website=www.newschool.edu/|accessdate=6 December 2017}}
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