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Further Information and Bookings - www.danarts.co.uk 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