After a successful inaugural event last year, View returns for its second edition at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and partner museums in London.
This year’s programme is organised around three main themes: Preserving & Restoring; Avant-Gardes and Precursors; and Defining Civilisations. On Saturday a series of debates, conversations and short talks will be staged at the Institute, along with a set of student presentations. Guided tours to participating museums take place on Sunday, and film screenings throughout the weekend. We spoke to the organisers, Adélia Sabatini and Joséphine Seblon, about the event.
Can art history help define civilisations?
Saturday 28 February: 5pm
At the Institut français Ciné Lumière
How can the analysis of artworks in a civilisation, from Ancient Egypt to Rome, Greece and the Middle East, help us understand it better? How loaded and problematic a term is ‘civilisation’, and why has it been applied to certain cultures at the exclusion of others?
Apollo editor Thomas Marks moderates a debate between Zeev Gourarier (Scientific Director & Director of Collections, Museum of Mediterranean and European Civilisations), Yves Le Fur (Director of Collections and Heritage, Musée du Quai Branly) and Marina Warner (mythographer).
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze