The Art of Revolution
The French Revolution of 1789 has inspired artists, writers and composers to create provocative and stirring works for successive generations; from Danton’s Death (1835) and A Tale of Two Cities (1859) to The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903), alongside the inspiring paintings of Jacques-Louis David and the flippancy of (Carry On) Don’t Lose Your Head.
This extended Platform is an opportunity to discover how this rich political episode has been manipulated and adapted into a variety of European art forms that say as much about their own times as they do about the upheavals in 18th-century France.
With
Susanne Kord, Professor of German at University College, London
Satish Padiyar, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art at The Courtauld Institute
Duncan Rock, baritone, accompanied by Joseph Middleton
Ruth Scurr, author of Fatal Purity - Robespierre and the French Revolution and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
David Beames, Kirsty Bushell and Barnaby Kay from the Danton's Death company
Chaired by Genista McIntosh
1hour 30mins
Tickets £10
The Art of Revolution finished on: 18 September 2010
