Martin Myrone (Tate Britain) on 'Spectacle and the Sublime: Romantic VIsuality and Contemporary Exhibition Culture'
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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Tate Britain Curator Martin Myrone discussed the Sublime as spectacle in relation to the exhibitions 'Gothic Nightmares' (2006) and 'John Martin: Apocalypse' (2011-12). Martin's writings and exhibitions explore Romantic painting as spectacle, revisiting and reinventing the multisensorial practices and possibilities of Romantic period culture.
You can read a blog on this lecture by Dr Luisa Cale here.
Martin Myrone is Lead Curator in pre-1800 British Art at Tate Britain. He has curated Gothing Nightmares: Blake, Fuseli and the Romantic Imagination (2006), Rude Britannia (2010), John Martin: Apocalypse (2011-12). His publications include Body Building Reforming Masculinities in British Art, 1750-1810 (Yale 2006), Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700-1850, coedited with Lucy Peltz (Ashgate 1999), as well as books on Fuseli, Blake, Stubbs.
Contact name:
Ann Lewis