Join us for a Panel Discussion: Aesthetics and Politics Revisted, on Thursday 29 May 3-5pm West Wing 5, UCC.
Three historians of art and politics of the 1930s revisit this pivotal moment to reconsider how the contributions of this fraught period can be brought to bear on the present, while a contemporary critic reflects on current practices. Can visual culture still intervene in political discourse? If so, how? On what terms?
Dr Nuit Banai, Tufts University and Visiting Research Resident IMMA/NCAD; critic for Artforum International, Time Out New York...
Dr. Sabine Kriebel, University College Cork author of Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield (University of California Press, 2014)
Dr. Jody Patterson, University of Plymouth: author of Modernism for the Masses: Painetrs, Politics and Public Murals in 1930s New York (under review ay University of Pennsylvania Press)
Followed by reception and book launch: Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield by Sabine Kriebel Wandesford Quay Gallery 5:30 pm