Samuel Johnson is a specialist in the art and architecture of the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between abstract art and politics in Russia between the World Wars. He teaches courses on various topics in twentieth century art.

Books

El Lissitzky on Paper: Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919-1933 (manuscript in progress)

Articles

“Counterfactual Modeling in Historical Reconstruction,” co-authored with Mitesh Dixit, Lawry Boyer, and Stephen Melville, in Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) (forthcoming)

“Suprematism and/or Supremacy of Architecture” in Celebrating Suprematism: New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich, ed. Christina Lodder (Brill, 2018), 144-60

“Ornement/masse: la troisième dimension du suprématisme,” in Chagall, Lissitzky, Malévitch: L’avant-garde russe à Vitebsk, 1918-1922 (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2018), 196-201

“El Lissitzky’s Other Wolkenbügel: Reconstructing an Abandoned Architectural Project,” The Art Bulletin vol. 99 no. 3 (Sept. 2017), 147-69

Reviews

“Carl Einstein, A Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art, caareviews.org/reviews/3824 (January 2021)

“Catherine Walworth, Soviet Salvage: Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism” caareviews.org/reviews/3416 (June 2018)

“Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals.” caareviews.org/reviews/2675 (May 2015)

Leonard A. Lauder Postdoctoral Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-17