‘Cézanne, art and life.’
Paul Cézanne is the exemplary artist-creator of the modern world. Among painters he is a legend, but his influence extends far beyond, to writers and filmmakers, poets and philosophers. His creations have colonized our consciousness. His impact on our conception of ourselves and our world is comparable to that of Marx or Freud.
Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2014-17. He is the author of a number of internationally-acclaimed biographies, most recently Cézanne (2012). He has also written extensively about various aspects of art and politics. Some of this work is collected in an influential book of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009), and in the best-selling 100 Artists’ Manifestos (2011). He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and various national newspapers. He is currently working on a biography of Magritte, and another collection of essays, On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone.
Please join St Andrews graduates, parents and friends for this intriguing and thought-provoking discussion with Alex Danchev, Professor of International Relations and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.