Event InfoName:FORUM – Paradise Lost: Romanticism’s Return
Tagline: with Max Allen, GB Jones, Katherine Lochnan & John Potvin
Host: The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
Type: Music/Arts – Performance
Time and PlaceDate: Thursday, November 1, 2007
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: The Power Plant
Street: 231 Queens Quay West
City/Town: Toronto, ON

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Contact InfoPhone: 416.973.4949
Email: thepowerplant@harbourfrontcentre.com

Description

From the glam rock band Scissor Sisters to Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, contemporary culture is infatuated with ecstatic, anguished decadence. Responding to Paul P.’s interests in the dandyism of writer Marcel Proust and painter James McNeill Whistler, this forum considers the resurgence of romanticism, touching on issues of artist relationships and personae, 19th Century portraiture, pornography’s infiltration of visual culture, and images of desire and loss.

Chaired by Max Allen, producer/host of CBC’s IDEAS, speakers include GB Jones, artist/musician whose work appeared with Paul P.’s on the cover for The Hidden Camera’s The arms of his ‘ill’; Katherine Lochnan, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Gallery of Ontario and curator of ‘Turner, Whistler, Monet’ which toured to Tate Britain and Musée d’Orsay; and John Potvin, author of Bachelors of a Different Sort whose research concerns the male body and intimacy in Victorian and Edwardian culture.