{"id":9239,"date":"2022-01-25T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2022-01-25T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T20:28:57","slug":"in-darkness-and-in-light-rethinking-joseph-wright-of-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2022\/01\/25\/in-darkness-and-in-light-rethinking-joseph-wright-of-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"In Darkness and in Light: Rethinking Joseph Wright of Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online and in-person talk, 16th February 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk\/whats-on\/forthcoming\/in-darkness-and-in-light\">In Darkness and in Light: Rethinking Joseph Wright of Derby<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wrightbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wrightbook.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"744\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9241\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rethinking&#8221; is not here a weasel-word for the usual scabrous political axe-grinding. Rather it&#8217;s apparently about&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A full <em>Catalogue Raisonne<\/em> is also reported to be in preparation for the famous painter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online and in-person talk, 16th February 2022, In Darkness and in Light: Rethinking Joseph Wright of Derby. &#8220;Rethinking&#8221; is not here a weasel-word for the usual scabrous political axe-grinding. Rather it&#8217;s apparently about&#8230; the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}