The Style of the Dead – Why Classicism so often gets the best Sepulchral Gigs
When
Where
The Alan Baxter Gallery and online
77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6BP
The All Hallows series concludes with a joint event held with the Mausolea and Monuments Trust in hybrid format: you can attend in person at the Alan Baxter Gallery or online.
Book on the MMT web site at https://www.mmtrust.org.uk/events.php . In-person attendance entry is from 6pm (to allow for seating), online attendance is at 6.30pm.
The forms of architectural classicism, and especially neo-classicism seem uniquely favoured in the modern world, to house the Dead in the great burial grounds of the western world. Why should these particular styles suit themselves to accommodate the Departed so well? Alexander Stoddart will try to account for this phenomenon, and in the process will explain why architectural Modernism finds itself hopeless when faced with the Tomb. The talk will draw controversial conclusions regarding the moral profile of the Modernist frame of mind and will prosecute the very kernel of the problem, stretching back to the origin of the Universe itself.
Alexander Stoddart is The King’s Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland