Tuesday Talk - October 27, 2020
The Romantics in Our Own Time
Speakers: Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History and History
- "When did culture begin to suggest that man was a part of nature not separate from it?
- When was the sub-conscious "discovered"?
- When was non-violent resistance seen as "unvanquishable"?
- When did art become a weapon of opposition?
Answer? Two hundred years ago: the time of the Romantics. Their legacy is still very much with us.