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“Utterly inexcusable and to me inexplicable”: The infamous destruction of Turner’s erotic art with Museum Director, Matthew Morgan

Where

Zoom

What

Culture

When

8 Sep 2022

UNTIL Thursday 8 September

The burning of Turner’s ‘unsuitable’ drawings by the art critic and artist John Ruskin, has become a widely accepted tale, not least because Ruskin himself perpetuated it.

8th September, 6:30-7:30pm – Tickets £7 – BOOK AT THIS LINK

The burning of Turner's 'unsuitable' drawings by the art critic and artist John Ruskin, has become a widely accepted tale, not least because Ruskin himself perpetuated it. To modern art lovers it appears to have been an act of prudish vandalism or misplaced hero worship. Museum Director, Matthew Morgan, examines the evidence, and places the destruction of Turner's erotic works, whether real or imagined, in the context of the destruction of many collections of letters and archives in the Victorian period.

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