John Flaxman as a Religious Sculptor
Thursday 17th June 2010
6:30 pm
At the Chadwick Lecture Hall, Chadwick Building, University College London; this lecture is organized to coincide with a new exhibition of Flaxman's drawings in the Strang Print Room, UCL.
Admission £5.00/£3.00 concessions.
Booking: contact nora@swedenborg.org.uk/(020) 7405 7986
John Flaxman (1755-1826), a friend and contemporary of William Blake, was the first British sculptor to achieve a major international reputation; he was also a founder member of the Swedenborg Society.
John Flaxman seems to his contemporaries to be two
quite different people. On the continent he was the famous author of
outline illustrations to Homer and Dante, but in Britain he was a kind
of national sculptor whose monuments were in hundreds of churchs
throughout the country. David will be looking at Flaxman as a religious
sculptor, especially at his Swedenborgian connections and imagery.
David
Bindman is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at University
College London. He was educated at Oxford, Harvard and the Courtauld
Institute, University of London. He has held fellowships at Yale,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Getty Institute, and the Du
Bois Institute, Harvard. He has written mainly on British art but also
on the representation of race. He is the author of Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race, 1700-1800, (2002) and has edited The History of British Art, 3 vols., (2008).
Venue
Chadwick Building, UCL, Gower Street,London, WC1
6BT
Enter through UCL's main gates on Gower St. Pass through the security lodge and the Chadwick Building is immediately to your right.
