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A symposium on the intersection of politics and art in the 20th century will be held October 19, 2010 from 4:30-6:00PM in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections Reading Room (Reynolds 625).

Mark Antliff (Duke University Department of Art), John Curley (WFU Department of Art), and Morna O’Neill (WFU Department of Art) will discuss the works of the Vorticist movement, illustrator and designer Walter Crane, and modern art icon Andy Warhol. “Politics and 20th Century Art,” moderated by Scott Klein (WFU Department of English), is offered in conjunction with the Duke-WFU Symposium, “Vorticism: New Perspectives,” to be held at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, October 29-30, 2010.

Relevant books from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections will be on exhibit.

“The image is not an idea. It is a radiant node or cluster; it is what I can, and must perforce, call a VORTEX, from which, and through which, and into which, ideas are constantly rushing. In decency one can only call it a VORTEX. And from this necessity came the name “vorticism.” Nomina sunt consequentia rerum [names are the consequences of things], and never was that statement of Aquinas more true than in the case of the vorticist movement.” —Ezra Pound