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Asen Kirin

Asen Kirin
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Professor of Art History
Academic Area
Art History
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By Appointment Only
Location
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Main Building | Room N316
Email
aekirin@uga.edu
CV
CVKirin2015.pdf
Research Focus

Changing perceptions of Byzantine art
Different ways in which Europeans and Americans engage the ancient and medieval cultural heritage

Asen Kirin's original training was in Sofia where he was born, and at Moscow University as well, was in Slavonic philology with a concentration on Cyrillic epigraphy. Subsequently, Kirin pursued the history of art and architecture during his graduate studies in the United States. He holds an M.A. from Vanderbilt and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He has received two fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University. He teaches courses in Late Antique, Byzantine and Russian art and architecture. His early publications dealt with Post-Byzantine frescoes and their inscriptions and with late antique architecture and urbanism. Also, he has written on the interplay of late Byzantine architecture, mural painting and natural landscape. His research into the changing perceptions of Byzantine art, as well as the different ways in which Europeans and Americans engage the ancient and medieval cultural heritage, led him to initiate and curate two exhibitions focusing on the history of art collecting. The first of them was Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks (Georgia Museum of Art 2005); the second involved the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens—Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796), (Georgia Museum of Art, September 22, 2013 to January 5, 2014; Hillwood, February 14 to June 8, 2014). Currently he is conducting research on an unpublished and never displayed private collection of Russian art numbering 2,629 objects. A representative selection from this collection’s holdings will be featured in an exhibition titled Gifts, Prayer and Salvation in the Romanov Empire; the show will be mounted at the Georgia Museum of Art from September 3 to December 31, 2016.

Jan 08, 2019
Image from the documentary, Gifts and Prayers: The Romanovs and Their Subjects (2016)

Professor Asen Kirin Featured in Telly Award Winning Documnentary

Dec 21, 2018
Unidentified artist, Nicholas II, Oil on canvas, 34 x 28 1/2 inches, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Promised gift from the Parker Collection

"The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II" Curated by Professor Asen Kirin

Jul 20, 2018

Art History Undergraduates Assist with Georgia Museum of Art Exhibition

Feb 26, 2018

Art Daily Magazine Features Dodd Professor Kirin

Jun 06, 2017

Curatorial Work of Dodd Professor Profiled in Georgia Magazine

Apr 02, 2017

Art History Undergrad Erin Wiser Wins Research Award

Sep 18, 2016

Gifts of the Russian Tsars: Professor Asen Kirin Curates Exhibition at Georgia Museum of Art

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