Professor Simon Goldhill: Victorian desire and the classical body
Duration: 1 hour 1 min 24 secs
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Professor Simon Goldhill, Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 30 January 2012.
The lecture is chaired by Professor Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, and introduced by Dr Rebecca Lingwood, Director of Continuing Education. Please note that the lecture proper begins at the 4:10 minute point in the video. |
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| Created: | 2012-03-05 11:17 | ||||
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Madingley Lectures
Madingley Lectures |
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| Publisher: | University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education | ||||
| Copyright: | Professor Simon Goldhill | ||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||
| Keywords: | classical; victorian; art; | ||||
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| Abstract: | This lecture described how Victorian painters used the classical body to express a complex and often conflicted notion of male desire, and how such images still inform the imagination today. |
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