Rebels not Muses: The Women Artists of European Modernism

The story of modern art as conventionally told inevitably runs from Monet and Cezanne through to Picasso, Kandinsky, Duchamp and Dalí. This programme of lectures paints a new picture of avant-garde experimentation before and after WW1 by showcasing the lives and careers of the many unsung female artists who also contributed to the European Modernist movement. They include Berthe Morisot, Hilma af Klint, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Helen Saunders, Sonia Delaunay and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

 

Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, lecturer and translator whose work ranges across the arts, and across the cultures of Europe, from Italy to Norway. Her background is in the art, music and literature of Russia and Ukraine, on which she has written widely. She began her career as an academic. In 2024 she will become a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford.The author of several books, including biographies of Chekhov and Tolstoy, she is also a translator. She is currently writing a book about the revolution in the arts in early 20th-century Russia.She contributes regularly to Proms events and opera broadcasts on the BBC.

 

Image: Olga Rozanova, Self-portrait, 1912-15

 

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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