Video: Professor Alison Hilton on Nikolai Timkov's Landscapes
Professor Alison Hilton discusses the landscape painting of Nikolai Timkov. (Video: S. Todd Chappell)
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Sustaining Vision: Professor Alison Hilton on Landscapes and the Art of Soviet Russia
A swath of blue sky, a mossy rock, a patch of grass. To Dr. Alison Hilton, these features of an artist’s landscape render not just a representation of nature, but also a reflection of society.
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Scott Chessare, a junior at Georgetown, came to Professor Hilton’s Arts of Russia seminar last spring with a cultivated interest in Russia. Focusing his undergraduate work on Russian and Eurasian and East European Studies, Chessare had studied in St. Petersburg the previous summer, where he took advantage of the cultural offerings for which Russia is famous.
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Georgetown senior Sarah Mellott’s fascination with art comes from the insight it gives into a country’s culture. Mellott’s interest in art was piqued by a family trip to Italy just prior to her freshman year at Georgetown, and since then she has spent a semester abroad in Florence, and is working towards a minor in Italian to complement her Art History major. Yet, last spring Mellott chose to enroll in Professor Hilton’s Arts of Russia Seminar.
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Georgetown senior Caitlin Souther has spent her college career finding ways to merge her diverse interests, both in the classroom and outside. Given that synthesizing ideas and research areas is also Professor Hilton’s approach to her art history research, it was fitting that last spring Souther enrolled in Hilton’s Arts of Russia Seminar.