Lecture Series—What about Revolution? Three Lectures on Aesthetic Practices after 1917
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| Three Lectures on Aesthetic Practices after 1917
On the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, this lecture series brings to campus three internationally distinguished historians of modern art to discuss the role that artists and filmmakers played in the revolutionary reorganization of social relations in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and ’30s. How did their utopian imagination take on spatial and pictorial form? How did their work help to engender processes of emancipation and social transformation? And what role has their example played in the intersection of radical aesthetics and leftist politics ever since? |
| Monday, September 18, 2017
6–7:30pm
“Revolution Every Day”
Christina Kiaer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
Monday, October 2, 2017
6–7:30pm
“Feeling Revolution: Cinema and the Emancipation of the Soviet Senses”
Emma Widdis, Reader in Russian Studies, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
This lecture will be preceded by a screening of Mikhail Kalatozov’s Sol Svanetii (Salt for Svanetia) (1930) on Sunday, October 1, in Menschel Hall, at 2pm.
Monday, November 6, 2017
6–7:30pm
“How Can a Work of Art Be Revolutionary? Case Studies in the History of the Left”
Leah Dickerman, Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
This series is offered in conjunction with the installation What about Revolution? Aesthetic Practices after 1917 (August 26, 2017–January 7, 2018). Following each lecture, the installation will be open until 8pm.
Harvard Art Museums
Menschel Hall
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA |
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| All lectures will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm. Free admission, but limited seating is available. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.
Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge. |
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| This series is organized by Maria Gough, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Professor of Modern Art, and is co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Harvard Art Museums.
Support for this program is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.
Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.
Image: El Lissitzky, Proun, 1926. Gouache, gray wash, graphite, silver paint, and colored paper collage on brown card. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Fredric Wertham Collection, Gift of his wife Hesketh, 1985.200. Artwork © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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