Join us for a screening of a new documentary and accompanying lecture on the artist Kirill Sokolov. Time Wednesday 11th of February 2015, 6:30-8:30pm Venue Project Room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JU The Dashkova Centre in partnership with the Sutton Gallery Premiere Screening of a documentary about the artist Kirill Sokolov (1930 - 2004) by Benjamin Sadd, accompanied by lecture by Dr Avril Pyman on 'The Concept of Tragedy in Russian Silver Age Thought' The event is free but booking is essential. Please e-mail the Dashkova Centre to book a place: Dashkova.Centre@ed.ac.uk Benjamin Sadd's new documentary presents the life and work of the major contemporary Russian artist Kirill Sokolov (1930 - 2004). Filmed in 2013 and 2014, this is the first documentary to look at his work in depth, from his early life in Russia to his emigration to Berwick upon Tweed and then Durham in the 1970s. The film will be accompanied by a lecture on 'The Concept of Tragedy in Russian Silver Age Thought' by Dr Avril Pyman. A leading translator of Russian poetry into English and a biographer of Aleksandr Blok and Pavel Florensky, Pyman has also written the major text on the Russian symbolist movement, A History of Russian Symbolism, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. She is a fellow of the British Academy. Publication date 03 Sep, 2015
