On Thursday 6 March, Dr Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, will be at Canterbury’s The Beaney, House of Art & Knowledge museum to give a public talk entitled ‘”The Disasters of War”: Reading Protocols and Re-appropriations’.
The talk will explore contemporary reactions to Francisco de Goya’s ‘Los Desastres de la Guerra’ [‘The Disasters of War’], a series of 82 prints created by the Spanish artist between 1810 and 1820. It will also look at the artistic traditions Goya was working both within and against, and the different patterns of reading and looking that the prints elicit. Antonio will also provide an overview of re-appropriations in the 21st century from the Chapman Brothers to Susan Sontag.
The talk will run from 6pm to 7pm, and costs £6. To book, please see the Beaney’s website here: www.canterbury.co.uk/beaney/whats_on
Update: the BBC have highlighted this event as recommendation on their ‘Things to Do’ webpages: www.bbc.co.uk/thingstodo/activity/the-disasters-of-war/occurrence/378464