Monday 30 November 2009, 10.15–17.00

Wanting to move forward, many modernist thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century found Romantic art to be outdated. The Dadaists, Futurists and Vorticists all rejected the sublime outright, but the relationship between modernist and sublime art is not a simple opposition. The Abstract Expressionists took a more favourable view, and Mark Rothko even claimed kinship with JMW Turner. This symposium explores how artists have engaged with or rejected the Romantic notion of the sublime.

Speakers: 

■Christine Battersby (University of Warwick)
■Scott Freer (University of Leicester)
■Tim Martin (De Montfort University)
■Gavin Parkinson (Courtauld Institute)
■Ian Patterson (University of Cambridge)
■Mark Rawlinson (University of Leicester)
■Steven Vine (Swansea University)
Convenor: ■Philip Shaw (University of Leicester)

In association with The Sublime Object: Nature, Art and Language research project at Tate Britain.

Supported by the AHRC in collaboration with the Landscape and Environment programme.

Organised by Tate Britain and the University of Leicester

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£15 (£10 concessions), booking required
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