Lecture: Prophets of modernity — art circa 1800, or the long history of modern art

“Art circa 1800” — the art following the French Revolution — is a term that art historians started to use in the twentieth century. 1789 marked the beginning of “the long nineteenth century,” which ended with the catastrophe of the First World War: it is precisely then that the fundamental trends for how art would develop in future generations were set in motion. The explosion of creative energy at the beginning of the nineteenth century was unprecedented.

We will talk with Sergei Fofanov about this important period in world art and its influence on the twentieth century and our own times. Sergei is an art historian, specialist on post-war German art and Soviet art studies from the 1930s to the 1950s and the curator of the Dreams of Freedom: Romanticism in Russia and Germany exhibition which is being held at the Tretyakov Gallery until 8 August.

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