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Author: Simon McIntyre
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Created: 08/11/2011
Updated: 18/04/2013
Tags: COFA Talks College of Fine Arts UNSW Public Series Artists Sydney Talksseries Alan Krell Fire Art History School Interview Dreadful Prankster Tertiary Education New South Wales Australia
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Watch this on your iPod - Vodcast available here

Alan Krell discusses his new book, "Burning Issues: Fire and Art in the Social Imagination".  Alan has explored fire in art from the Greek myth of Prometheus to use of fire, both creatively and literally, in modern art, and looked at these works of art in the context of society and its relationship to fire, the "dreadful prankster".

Alan Krell is Associate Professor at the School of Art History and Art Education, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is also the author of Manet and the Painters of Contemporary Life (1996) and The Devil's Rope: A Cultural History of Barbed Wire (Reaktion Books, 2002).

This interview was filmed on Tuesday October 25th as part of the COFA Talks series.

 

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