modernism
Sofia Greaves, ‘The mythic method. Subversive classicism in Giorgio de Chirico and British painting of the late 1920s’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomCambridge Classical Reception Seminar Series (CCRSS) Room G.21, Faculty of Classics Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge As Marinetti best expressed, the pre-war avant-garde rejected the classical tradition with belligerence in its ‘dance towards the common apotheosis of the Future’. Subsequently, post-war art of the 1920s has been evaluated pessimistically; ‘abstract’ has been taken to be synonymous […]
CfP 2025 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in PHILADELPHIA, deadline 02/02/24
Panel Title: “Dance and Myth: The Reception of the Greeks by Martha Graham” Organized by Ronnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center; and Nina Papathanasopoulou, College Year in Athens and Society for Classical Studies We invite abstracts for a panel at the 156th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Philadelphia in January 2025 […]