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Professor Simon Goldhill, Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
Monday 30 January 2012, 19:00-20:00
Victorian desire and the classical body
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Simon Goldhill, Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
- đ Date & Time: Monday 30 January 2012, 19:00 - 20:00
- đ Venue: Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall
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Paul Ireland
Abstract
This lecture will describe how Victorian painters used the classical body to express a complex and often conflicted notion of male desire, and how such images still inform the imagination today.
Booking is essential as places are limited â book online via the ICE website.
Series This talk is part of the Madingley Lectures series.
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