Professor Sacha Golob's talk entitled 'Francis Bacon: Decadent?' was part of a day-long event, 'Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis', held at King’s College London on 7th September 2023. The event was a collaboration between the Estate of Francis Bacon and KCL’s Centre for Philosophy and Art.
Sacha Golob (co-Director, CPVA) in conversation with the Scottish sculptor Kenny Hunter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Hunter) on the role of public sculpture, its destruction, and its style.
Chapters:
The Monumental Tradition: Approaches to Public Sculpture (0.45)
The Community: Sculpture and Democracy (4.25)
The Animal and the Human (13.41)
Destroying Sculptures (23.37)
The Toy Aesthetic and Post-Modern Irony (32.46)
The Southwark Memorial (38.32)
Sacha Golob (co-Director, CPVA) in conversation with the sculptor and performance artist Hester Reeve on the relationship between art and philosophy, her rejoinder to Plato’s Academy, the role of personas in contemporary art, and her interest in the great rationalist thinker Immanuel Kant.
0.31 - Philosophy as Artistic Practice
11.23 - Ymedaca and Plato’s Academy
23.40 - Conceptual Personas: HRH.the
33.10 - Thinking, Dialogue, Speech
40.27 - Materiality
47.58 - Immanuel Kant and the Residency at KCL
‘The Sublime’ @ The National Gallery