The great historian
and intellectual has died at the age of 95. Photo: Mark Blower.
LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery has paid tribute to Eric Hobsbawm the great historian and intellectual who has died at the age of 95. Julia Peyton-Jones, Director, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery said: “The world mourns the passing of one of history’s greatest minds. An inspiration to so many, he has been a mentor and a guiding light for the Serpentine’s annual Marathon events over the past seven years. He recently provided us with the following words: “I belong to a profession whose business it is to protest against forgetting - but which also knows that memory is complex and sometimes dangerous.” Eric Hobsbawn, May 2012
Eric
Hobsbawm took part in the Interview Marathon in 2006 and the Manifesto
Marathon in 2008.
He was advisor on the forthcoming Memory Marathon on 13 and 14 October. The Gallery will dedicate the event to his memory, with a special section with contr ... More |
1 comment:
A great loss, but one that also reminds me of the late Alan Preston, bookseller to the stars. Mr P always kept Hobsbawm's book on Unity's history table and loved to talk about his ideas.
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