{"id":1678,"date":"2018-10-26T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T14:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:19:07","slug":"ben-thomas-on-revolution-in-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/10\/26\/ben-thomas-on-revolution-in-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Thomas on revolution in painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/thomas.html\">Dr Ben Thomas<\/a>, Reader in History of Art, will be giving a paper at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk\/\">Paul Mellon Centre<\/a> in London on Wednesday 7 November 2018, entitled &#8216;R. B. Kitaj and the Revolution in History Painting&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The paper will discuss the impact of the art historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoa.ox.ac.uk\/professor-edgar-wind\">Edgar Wind<\/a> (1900-1971) on the work of the American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artists\/r-b-kitaj-1416\">R.B. Kitaj<\/a> (1932-2007), and present new research carried out for the forthcoming monograph <em>Edgar Wind and Modern Art: In Defence of Marginal Anarchy<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>From 1996 to 1999, Ben was Research Assistant to Margaret Wind (1915-2006), Edgar Wind&#8217;s wife, helping her to prepare the papers of her late husband for deposit in the Bodleian Library.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please see the event page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk\/whats-on\/forthcoming\/rb-kitaj\">www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk\/whats-on\/forthcoming\/rb-kitaj<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ben Thomas, Reader in History of Art, will be giving a paper at the Paul Mellon Centre in London on Wednesday 7 November 2018, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/10\/26\/ben-thomas-on-revolution-in-painting\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":1715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25563,168429,50209,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}