The Arts Society Nottingham

Day of Special Interest

Nottingham Conference Centre Burton Street Nottingham NG1 4BU

Tuesday 15th May 2018

LOOKING AT ME LOOKING AT YOU: The Representation of Women in Western Art

We have booked the popular lecturer Linda Smith, whom some of you will know from her excellent and entertaining talk “Great Tarts in Art”, for her new Study Day “LOOKING AT ME LOOKING AT YOU”.

The aim of the Study Day is to look at the representation of women in western art since ancient times. We will ask what the functions of such pictures were in their own times and how we might read them today. We will also consider the long history of how women have struggled for political representation and what that has meant for their roles as subjects, and makers, of art.

Linda has 2 first class degrees in Art History and is an experienced guide and lecturer at Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Session1: Looking Back - From Antiquity to Renaissance. Here many aspects will be considered including courtly love and the role of women as patrons of art.

Session 2: Looking The Part – Some women in British Art c.1550 – c.1900. A wide range of women will be covered from all-powerful monarchs down to the ubiquitous Fallen Women of the Victorian Era.

Session 3: Who Are You Looking At? – Twentieth Century Art and Feminism. We will see how early avant-garde challenged and subverted European tradition in art and what the rise of the cult of Bohemia meant for women trying to succeed as artists.

Cost: £44.00 inc. refreshments on arrival and at morning break and a hot two course lunch in the Old Library.

Discount parking at nearby Talbot St car park (present token to reception) OR discounted tram tickets included.

10.00 Registration + refreshments Level 2

10.30 Session 1 Level 2

11.30 Break + refreshments Level 2

1.50 Session 2 Level 2

1.00 Lunch in Old Library Level 1

2.00 – 3.00 Session 3 Level 2

Applications are on a “first come” basis. Complete the slip below in BLOCK CAPITALS and send with your payment to:-

Mrs Ann Hall, 169, Derby Road, Bramcote, Nottingham NG9 3GZ

(cheques payable to The Arts Society Nottingham) and enclosing a SAE for the return of the tickets.

Please note that tickets may be transferred, but only to members. No money can be refunded

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