Anatol Rykov

Anatol Rykov is Professor of Art History in the Department of History of Western European Art at the Institute of History in Saint Petersburg State University. His habilitation (2008), as well as his book “Postmodernism as Radical Conservatism” (2007) considered the connotations of right-wing politics and philosophy in the contemporary US “left” art criticism (October journal). His dissertation concerns the social aspects of David Hockney’s artwork (2003). He is also the author of the book “Politics of Avant-Garde” (2019) and numerous publications on the theory of deconstruction.