What is Heroism? Take a look through our scrapbook, which contains works from Durham University’s Library and Collections. Designed to inspire!

Watch the slide show below or download the PDF.

Check out our Art Prize 'Art School' programme for FREE online talks, workshops and resources all about heroism. Open to everyone!

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage." - Georgia O'Keefe

Further reading:

Empathic vision : affect, trauma, and contemporary art
Bennett, Jill, 1963-
2005

Provocations : collected essays
Paglia, Camille, 1947- author.
First edition. 2018

Artemisia Gentileschi : the image of the female hero in Italian Baroque art
Garrard, Mary D.
c1989

Heroism Through the Ages: Google Arts and Culture

Saatchi Art: Heroism

Resources

• Heroism Inspiration (last modified: 9 November 2020)