About the Author

Margaret Iversen is Professor of Art History at the University of Essex and one of the leading international authorities in the field of art theory and contemporary art; her main focus of study is psychoanalytic art theory. In 2007 she publishedBeyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (2007), and she is currently working on a book on photography and art since the Sixties. Dimitri Ozerkov is head of the Contemporary Art department and 20/21 project at the Hermitage Museum, responsible for bringing contemporary art exhibitions to St Petersburg. Anna Trofimova is head of the department of Classical Antiquities at the Hermitage Museum.