High Weald DFAS Study Day
At : THELONDON BEACH HOTEL, ST. MICHAELS, TENTERDEN, KENT TN30 6HX
On :Tuesday 4th April 2017; 10.30 – 3.0 pm;
Price : £25 to include a light lunch
To ACCOMPANY THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION on RUSSIAN ART 1917-1932:
Art and Revolution:
The Life and Death of the Russian Avant-Garde
Lecturer : Rosamund Bartlett
Even before the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, Russian artists had staged a daring revolution of their own. This day of lectures will begin by showing how figures like Kandinsky and Stravinsky changed the course of art in their respective fields, and became leaders of the European avant-garde. Some, like Goncharova, chose to remain in emigration at the time of the Revolution, in the hope of one day returning to Russia, while others, like Chagall and Malevich, went on to play a leading role in early Soviet culture, amidst utopian hopes for a bright future. In the 1920s, the Soviet Union was the most exciting country in the world for artistic experimentation, with a proliferation of radical movements like Suprematism and Constructivism, and creative genius of the calibre ofRodchenko, Popova, Meyerhold, Eisenstein, and Shostakovich. Within a decade, however, their dreams were tragically extinguished under the harsh conditions of the Stalinist regime, forcing the Russian avant–garde to capitulate or fall silent.
Rosamund Bartlett has a Doctorate from Oxford and has held senior university posts, most recently at the European University Institute in Florence. She specialises in comparative study of art, music and literature, and is currently writing a book on the Russian Avant-Garde and European Modernism. Rosamund is the author of several books, including biographies of Tolstoy and Chekhov, whose works she has also translated for Oxford World's Classics. She has extensive experience lecturing in Russian cultural history at venues such as the V&A, the National Theatre and Covent Garden, and broadcasts regularly on the BBC as well as often being invited to lecture on tours. Rosamund is founding Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation, set up to preserve the writer's house in Yalta.
Please detach this slip and send, with your cheque for £25.00, made payable to HWDFAS, with a STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE to Daphne McKerrell,The Gatehouse, Sissinghurst Road,Sissinghurst, Kent TN17 2JA.Tel:01580714090.
Queries when Daphne is unavailable may be addressed to: Liz Young, Westbourne, High Street, Ticehurst TN5 7BD, Tel : 01580200653.
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