[MGSA-L] Byzantine Counter-Discourse at Michigan

Vassilios Lambropoulos vlambrop at umich.edu
Sat Nov 20 12:42:49 PST 2010


The Modern Greek Program and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan present

BLOOMSBURY TRAVELLERS TO GREECE 
AND THE MEDITERRANEAN: 
THE BYZANTINE TRADITION AS 
COUNTER-DISCOURSE TO THE CLASSICAL 

Monday, November 22, 2010 at 4PM 
Kelsey Museum
434 S. State Street, U-M Central Campus 

Martha Klironomos 
Professor of Modern Greek and English, Director of the Center for Modern Greek Studies, San Francisco State University

This talk takes a look at how the Byzantine tradition stirred the imagination of members of the Bloomsbury group as evidenced in their travel experiences to Byzantine sites in and around the Mediterranean from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the 20th century. Members of this group include Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Virginia Woolf. In examining this material and building on recent scholarship on the subject, it illustrates how within the avant-garde strands of modernist intellectual production their collective representation of Byzantium, set within the context of the rise of Byzantine studies in art and history and fueled by travel to relevant sites, emerged as a counter-discourse in reaction to the dominance of classicism.
This event is free and open to the public

For more information: 734-936-6099 or lsa.umich.edu/modgreek

 
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