Can art be apolitical? | Eileen Myles, Anish Kapoor & Frances Morris
19Frances Morris, Anish Kapoor and Eileen Myles consider the importance of politics in art.
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From the writings of Swift and Dickens to Goya's 'Third of May' and Picasso's 'Guernica', art and literature has often been interwoven with politics. But today in the wake of the global pandemic and black lives matter protests, many argue that art has no alternative and that a failure to recognise the political character of art makes the work worthless.
Should we see all creative work as playing a vital part in forming the culture of our time and so inherently political? Or is this to undermine the very nature of art itself which should be focused on creating works of aesthetic value and offering new ways of making sense of the world?
Director of the Tate Modern Frances Morris, conceptual artist and sculptor Anish Kapoor and legendary poet Eileen Myles consider the importance of politics in art. Mary-Ann Sieghart hosts.
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Eileen Myles is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature."
Sir Anish Kapoor is a sculptor specialising in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
Frances Morris is the director of London's Tate Modern art gallery. She is a board member of Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and the Conseil International des Musees d'Art Moderne (CIMAM) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. In March 2018 she was appointed Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts.
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