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Allegorical Realism
22 November 2023, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Research Seminar with Andrei Pop
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Queenie Lee – History of Art
Location
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IAS Forum, Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)South WingWilkins BuildingLondonWC1E 6BT
Modern art is reputedly allergic to allegory, in contrast with the Baroque, or postmodernism for that matter. But a careful look at some modern critics of allegory, and some canonical Realist artworks, reveals an allegorical impulse running through aesthetic modernity, one that insists on concreteness, conceptual clarity, and the fictional coherence of the work of art.
About the Speaker
Andrei Pop
Frumkin Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Department of Art History at University of Chicago
He has published two books, one on Henry Fuseli and neoclassicism, another on symbolist art and science. He is also the co-editor and translator of Karl Rosenkranz's 1853 Aesthetics of Ugliness.
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