University Open Air: Beauty and Ugliness in French and Francophone literature and the Arts
French society’s obsession with taste shows up in many areas. We will examine some laudatory and critical devices used in some emblematic works to present the concept of beauty and ugliness, starting from XVII century literature and visual arts to arrive in modern times. Works from Madame de Lafayette, Balzac, Malick Sidibe, contribute to the conversation about beauty and ugliness.
Nadia Bongo is a teaching artist and translator with a PhD in French Language and Literature from Aix Marseille Université. She has earned a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship and a Boston Writers of Color’s grant. Her writing has appeared in The Citron Review, Litro Magazine online, African Voices, TAOS journal of poetry, Apex magazine, and elsewhere. With Dylan Castagnette, Nadia co-directed a short film with the support of the University Open Air, a program of Brooklyn Public Library.
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University Open Air is generously supported by The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund.
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French society’s obsession with taste shows up in many areas. We will examine some laudatory and critical devices used in some emblematic works to present the concept of beauty and ugliness, starting from XVII century literature and visual arts to arrive in modern times. Works from Madame de Lafayette, Balzac, Malick Sidibe, contribute to the conversation about beauty and ugliness.
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