Pure painting: Wassily Kandinsky and the birth of abstraction by Dr Natalia Murray
The Old Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, CB2 1RGWassily Kandinsky by Adolf Elnain, 1925 One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky, who spent most of his life between Munich and Paris and died in 1944 as a French citizen, exploited the evocative interrelation between colour and … Continue reading
Between Frames: The Secrets of Symbols and Memory in Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’ with Ksenia Golubovich
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1974) is a film-essay. How was this film created through Tarkovsky’s new method of “cards” and a kind of deliberate “montage of fragments”? The film quite literally lays siege to our sense of reality and authenticity. … Continue reading
The Prince, the Courtesan and the Missing Diamonds by Calum MacLeod
Explore Uzbekistan’s remarkable Romanov story Please join us or a talk by Calum MacLeod, author of the new travel book Uzbekistan – The Golden Road to Samarkand. The Romanov Palace in Taskent (photo by Calum MacLeod) Henrietta “Harriet” Ely Blackford, … Continue reading
“Rachmaninov and the Myth of Exile”, a talk by Prof Marina Frolova-Walker
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