Join us for this free illustrated talk celebrating Bloomsday 2024.
‘Classical Myths into Contemporary Art’’
James Joyce based Ulysses largely on Homer’s epic adventure story The Odyssey, adapting, reworking, and often subverting it to apply to the Dublin of his day. He created parallels, that were sometimes ironic, between the ancient Greek heroes and their adventures, and the various characters and their activities as they cross the streets of Dublin over the course of the 16th June 1904.
Taking in works such as Michael Kane’s Agamemnon Felled series, currently on display in the Hugh Lane Gallery, this lecture looks at how contemporary artists have produced work exploring similar parallels between the ancient and modern worlds, just as Joyce does in his version of Homer’s epic tale.
Sunday 16 June, 1pm
Join us for this illustrated talk by Yseult O’Driscoll
Free, no booking. Space limited.
