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Art History Lectures with Adrian Sumner
Monday 20 January
Pop goes the Easel
David Hockney: Swinging
Sixties Still Swinging
This illustrated lecture will
attempt to bring the Pop
Art scene into sharp focus,
looking at the incredible,
often thrilling, variety of
visual arts experiences on
offer to a rapidly-expanding
market, as the Age of
Aquarius kicked in. We will
explore the great personalities of Pop Art as well as Op
Art, Kinetic Art, Happenings, Assemblage, Abstraction, Colour-Field Painting,
Nouveau Realisme,
Psychedelia, Political Art,
Underground Art, Posters,
Magazines and Album Cover
Art, Fashion, Childrens’
Book Illustration, and the
beginnings of Minimalism
and Environmental Art.

And just because he’s still
swinging, we take a special
look at Dear Old David
Hockney, tireless innovator
in a greedy artworld.

Monday 24 February
The Art of War
A lecture examining the
memorable and moving
images created by British
artists in the Great War and
World War Two, as well as
those of many other
countries, plus how artists
have recorded and remembered conflict down the
ages, plus posters, propaganda and political cartoons.

Features Paul Nash, Graham
Sutherland, CRW Nevinson,
Wyndham-Lewis, David
Bomberg, Frank Brangwyn,
Orpen, Lavery, Eric
Ravilious, Boccioni,
Severini, George Grosz,
Otto Dix, and many more.
This lecture links to our
Heritage Tour to Duxford
Air Museum on Saturday 2
August.

Monday 17 March
Edward Burne-Jones and
the Pre-Raphaelites
or How Desperate Romantics Became Dreamers of
Decadence
Looking at the groundbreaking and gorgeous
paintings of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood,
their contemporary followers and legacy, and their
formative influence on the
Arts and Crafts Movement,
Art Nouveau, Decadence,
International Symbolism and
the Aesthetic Movement.

We focus particularly on the
genius of Burne-Jones, and
how his ‘Golden, dim
dreams’ shaped the style
and thinking of a generation
of artists in Britain, Continental Europe and America.
And then the work of
Beardsley, Mackintosh,
Moreau, Khnopff, Klimt, the
Vienna Secession, Lalique,
Tiffany, Gauguin, ToulouseLautrec, finding echoes in
Flower-power, Biba, and the
Psychedelia of the Swinging
Sixties.

This lecture links to our
This lecture links to our
Heritage Tour to Liverpool
Heritage Tour to Birmingon Saturday 25 January and
ham on Saturday 22 March
the David Hockney
and the Collection of PreExhibition at the Walker
Raphaelite paintings at the
Art Gallery.
Museum and Art Gallery.
DAN Community, The Library, Witton Street, Northwich CW9 5DR