Book Iris Murdoch and Art 2025
Iris Murdoch is an intensely visual writer who, when searching for inspiration, would regularly visit art galleries across the world. From Frans Hal's Laughing Cavalier in her first novel Under the Net through to Rembrandt's The Polish Rider in her penultimate novel The Green Knight, art and artists populate her fiction. The art works remind the reader of the need to take art seriously; that art was for life's sake, not its own.
In this new course, Miles Leeson will discuss five novels in which Murdoch centres key scenes, or indeed the entire narrative, around a classical work of art.
Live online course: five lectures and seminars, Sundays, fortnightly, 16 March to 11 May 2025, 6.00 to 8.00 pm.
Iris Murdoch is an intensely visual writer who, when searching for inspiration, would regularly visit art galleries across the world. From Frans Hal's Laughing Cavalier in her first novel Under the Net through to Rembrandt's The Polish Rider in her penultimate novel The Green Knight, art and artists populate her fiction. The art works remind the reader of the need to take art seriously; that art was for life's sake, not its own.
In this new course, Miles Leeson will discuss five novels in which Murdoch centres key scenes, or indeed the entire narrative, around a classical work of art.
Live online course: five lectures and seminars, Sundays, fortnightly, 16 March to 11 May 2025, 6.00 to 8.00 pm.
Iris Murdoch is an intensely visual writer who, when searching for inspiration, would regularly visit art galleries across the world. From Frans Hal's Laughing Cavalier in her first novel Under the Net through to Rembrandt's The Polish Rider in her penultimate novel The Green Knight, art and artists populate her fiction. The art works remind the reader of the need to take art seriously; that art was for life's sake, not its own.
In this new course, Miles Leeson will discuss five novels in which Murdoch centres key scenes, or indeed the entire narrative, around a classical work of art.
Live online course: five lectures and seminars, Sundays, fortnightly, 16 March to 11 May 2025, 6.00 to 8.00 pm.