Allegorical Realism
Research Seminar with Andrei Pop
Allegorical Realism
22 Nov 2023, 17:30 – 19:30
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.
Frumkin Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Department of Art History
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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