Publications
Books:
2019: International Yearbook of Futurism Studies: Special Issue Russian Futurism, vol. 9 (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter) 570pp: editor with Günter Berghaus, Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, and Gabriella Elina Imposti.
2018: Celebrating Suprematism: New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich (Leiden, Brill), 290pp, editor. Contributed ‘Introduction’, pp. 1-10; & ‘Conflicting Approaches to Creativity? Suprematism and Constructivism’, pp. 259-288.
2015: Translation of Selim Omarovich Khan-Magomedov, Georgii Krutikov: The Flying City and Beyond (Barcelona: Tenov Books) 159 pp.
2013: Aleksei Gan, Constructivism (Barcelona: Tenov) 166 pp: translator, editor and author of introduction
2013: Utopian Reality: Reconstructing Culture in Revolutionary Russia and Beyond (Leiden: Brill), 271pp, editor with Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva. Co-author of ‘Utopia and Dystopia: The Impulse of History’, pp 1-8. Contributed ‘The Ghost in the Machine: The Modernist Architectural Utopia under Stalin’, pp. 169-192.
2007: Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich’s Birth (London: Pindar Press), 381pp, editor with Charlotte Douglas. Contributed ‘Malevich Scholarship: A Brief Introduction’, pp. ix-xxii; and ‘Living in Space: Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Architecture and the Philosophy of Nikolai Fedorov’, pp. 172-202
2005: Constructive Strands in Russian Art (London: Pindar Press) 596 pp. Collection of articles, some of which had been published elsewhere.
2000: Constructing Modernity: The Art and Career of Naum Gabo (New Haven and London: Yale University Press), 529pp, co-author with Martin Hammer
2000: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews (Forest Row, Sussex: Artists Bookworks) 295pp, co-editor with Martin Hammer
1995: Gabo's Stones, exhibition catalogue (Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, The Centre for the Study of Sculpture), 8pp, co-author with Martin Hammer.
1993: Russian Painting of the Avant-Garde l906-1924 (Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art), 95pp.
1983: Russian Constructivism (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) 328pp. Reprinted 1985, 1988, 1990, 1998. Spanish translation: El Constructivsmo Russo (Madrid: Editorial Alianza S.A.C., 1988).
Selected List of Articles (Total published: 114 in books; 25 in journals; 9 on line; 7 in press)
2017: ‘Ivan Puni and the Flight of Forms: From St Petersburg to Moscow’, Experiment/Eksperiment, vol. 23, no. 1 (2017), pp. 104-116.
2017: ‘Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński in Russia’, in Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński Avant-garde Prototypes (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia), pp. 104-117.
2014: ‘Revolutionary Photography’ in Mitra Abbaspour, Lee Ann Daffner, and Maria Morris Hambourg, eds. Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949. An Online Project of The Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 12pp. http://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/assets/essays/Lodder.pdf
2014: ‘Gustavs Klucis and Constructivism’, in Gustavs Klucis Complete Catalogue of Works in the Latvian National Museum of Art /Gustavs Klucis Latvijas Nacionala Makslas Muzeja Kolekcijas Zinatniksais Katalogs (Riga, Latvia: Latvian National Museum of Art), vol. 1, pp. 9-25.
2014: ‘Kazimir Malevich and the First World War’ in John E. Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler and Elena Sudakova, A Game in Hell: The Great War in Russia (London: GRAD Publishing), p. 99-109.
2013: ‘St Petersburg/Petrograd/Leningrad: From Aesthetes to Revolutionaries’, in Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker and Christian Weikop, The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, vol. III, Europe, 1880-1940, Part II (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 1248-1275 (with Peter Hellyer)
2013: ‘From Futurist Iconoclasm to Socialist Construction’, in Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker and Christian Weikop, eds., The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. III, Europe, 1880-1940, Part II (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp.1299-1318.
2010: ‘Liubov Popova: From Painting to Textile Design’, Tate Papers, Autumn 2010
2006: ‘Searching for Utopia’, in Christopher Wilk, ed., Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939, exhibition catalogue (London: Victoria and Albert Museum), pp. 23-69. I was one of the curatorial team and wrote 50 catalogue entries.
2002: ‘Art into Life: International Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe’, Central European Avant Gardes (Los Angeles and Cambridge MA.: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MIT Press), pp. 172-198.
1992: ‘The Vkhutemas and the Bauhaus’ in eds., G. Harrison Roman and V. Hagelstein Marquardt, The Avant-Garde Frontier: Russia Meets the West 1910-1930 (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida), pp. 196-240.
1985: ‘Catalogue Raisonné of the Constructions and Sculptures of Naum Gabo’, in eds., S. Nash & J. Merkert, Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism (Munich: Prestel Verlag), pp. 193-272.
1979: Constructivist theatre as a laboratory for an architectural aesthetic’, Architectural Association Quarterly, vol. II, no. 2, 1979, pp. 24-35.
Professional Contribution to the Academic Community
82 conference papers; 89 book reviews; 94 public lectures; plus various activities, including
2015: Chair of Organising Committee for conference ‘100 Years of Suprematism’ at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, 11th & 12th December 2015.
2013: Elected President of Malevich Society, New York, ongoing; Board member since 2001
2009: Appointed Co-Editor in Chief of Russian History & Culture Series, at Brill (now Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh, Paderborn, Germany).
1976: Organised campaign to secure the purchase of Russian Futurist books by the British Library.
Academically Related Experience in the Community
1985 - 1991: Member of the Exhibitions Committee for the Scottish Arts Council.
1996 - 2003 Trustee of the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Awards 1973-1974, & 1977 British Council Research Scholarships to Moscow University; 2013 Museum of Modern Art Walther Collection Fellowship; 2016 Getty Institute Library Fellowship