In the years leading up to the First World War, the Slade School of Art in London was the leading establishment in England for teaching of drawing and painting. Its students included some of the most important British artists of the first half of the twentieth century, including David Bomberg, Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson, William Roberts, Stanley Spencer and Edward Wadsworth. Based on his book, A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009), this lecture explores the fascinating story of these artists’ interlocking lives, and their artistic education and development.
David Haycock
Dr. David Boyd Haycock is an established freelance art historian and curator. He is best known for his 2009 book, A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War, and the subsequent exhibition he curated at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Educated at the University of Oxford, and a former curator at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, he is a specialist in British art and culture in the period 1860 to 1940. His latest books include a new biography of the young Augustus John, and a new biography of the equestrian painter Lucy Kemp-Welch. An Arts Society lecturer since 2011.
Image: Mark Gertler, Family Group, 1913, Southampton City Art Galley
Doors and the bar open from 18.45; lectures start at 19.30 and last an hour with additional time for questions.
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