Category: The Art of Resistance

Time for Turgenev

Post author By Jenny Antill
Post date July 26, 2020
Categories In The Art of Resistance, Writers

I have been reading The Europeans by Orlando Figes The book traces the story of the relationship between the writer, Ivan Turgenev, and the Spanish opera singer Pauline Viardot. Turgenov wrote that she was the only love of his life, and their relationship fluctuated between the very close to the quite distant over the […]

The Black Square

Post author By Jenny Antill
Post date February 27, 2019
Categories In art, talks, The Art of Resistance

In my talk about the Art of Resistance (see talks tab above) I devote some time to Malevich’s famous image from the beginning of the 20th Century, The Black Square. There is now an excellent Heni Talk about this picture available on-line given by the Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery Iwona Blazwick. She reflects […]