季風人文講壇第108期：Thomas Crow

The Death of Marat, Reborn: Art and Revolution

with Thomas Crow  & Alexander Dumbadze & Angel Xiang 

March 18, 2026｜In English

Profession Crow revisits Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat to ask how and why it endures as an emblem of revolutionary feeling. Tracing the image from 1793 to the 1960s protest cultures and beyond, he shows how Marat became a talisman of political resistance. Professor Dumbadze will join as panel discussant, opening a wider conversation on political images and public memory.

About the Speaker 

Thomas Crow is the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. His many books include Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820, and The Artist in the Counterculture: Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge.

Panel Discussant: Alexander Dumbadze is an Associate Professor of Art History at George Washington University. His most recent book is Jack Goldstein: All Day Night Sky. He is also the author of Bas Jan Ader: Death Is Elsewhere.

Moderator: Angel Xiang is a third-year J.D. candidate at GW Law and an emerging art law scholar and cultural commentator. A former student of Professor Thomas Crow, she works at the intersection of modern art and legal frameworks.