John Cussans: In the Shadows of Romance at Portman Gallery...PowerPoint Presentation.
Friday 13 December 2013, 4pm
(Free, no booking required)
This lecture discusses the Romantic myth of the modern artist with reference to the lives and work of Vincent Van Gogh, Austin Osman Spare and Ana Mendieta. Attention will be paid to the role of their childhood experiences, the passions and obsessions that drove their work and how they responded to the issue of artworld recognition. Finally I will ask how such romantic myths relate to what the art theorist Stephen Wright has called the 'exit strategies' of contemporary artists seeking to escape the 'attention economy' of the established artworld.
John Cussans is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Visual Cultures and Visiting Tutor in the Department of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College
This event is part of the exhibition Local Landscape
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