The Art of Self Expression
Somerset Rural Life Museum, Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DB
Saturday 08 September 2018 – Saturday 01 December 2018
Art and Its Materials Led by Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London
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Tuesday 16 October 2018
6-7.30pm
Admission Fee: £5, £3 concessions
Booking recommended
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Art and Its Materials is an ongoing series exploring the relationship between art, aesthetics and contemporary materialism. Organised in partnership with the Philosophy Programme and Social Sciences in the City, University of the West of England (UWE) and the Working Group on Contemporary Materialism.
Esther Leslie
Esther Leslie is a lecturer in English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
Her research interests include Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, as well as the poetics of science, European literary and visual modernism and avant gardes, animation, colour and madness.
Her books are Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto 2000), and Hollywood Flatlands, Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde (Verso 2002), Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion, 2005) and Walter Benjamin (Reaktion 2007), Derelicts: Thought Worms from the Wreckage (Unkant, 2014).
Her translations include Georg Lukacs, A Defence of 'History and Class Consciousness' (Verso 2002) and Walter Benjamin: The Archives (Verso, 2007).
Her next book is on the poetics and politics of liquid crystals.
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