'WE the moderns'
A SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 10 March 2007
10.30am-4.30pm (registration from 10am)
Cost:£30 (£20 full-time student concession)
Venue: Seminar Room at CRASSH (17 Mill Lane, Cambridge)
Please telephone 01223 352124 to book a place.
'WE the moderns' places the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) within his European context, including the work of Brancusi, Modigliani, Epstein, Picasso, Archipenko, Laurens and Duchamp-Villon to name just a few. The exhibition illustrates the rich and diverse range of influences that were feeding into the practice of Gaudier and his contemporaries. These artists were looking beyond appearances and attempting to give visible form to the invisible.
Kettle's Yard and CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) are hosting an interdisciplinary symposium to explore the investigations and revelations of those years before World War I. Topics include Einstein and Poincaré's work on relativity and how this relates to Picasso; Freud's enquiries into the unconscious; Henri Bergson's observations on change as the expression of time; the impact of non-European cultures; and developments in film, music and literature.
SPEAKERS:
PROF TIM ARMSTRONG, Professor of Modern English & American Literature
at Royal Holloway, University of London; LUTZ BECKER, film-maker and exhibition
curator; DR JULIA BOROSSA, Programme Leader MA Psychoanalysis at Middlesex
University; RICHARD LANGHAM SMITH, Arnold Kettle Distinguished Scholar of
Music, The Open University; PROF. JOHN MACK, School of World Art and Museology,
UEA; PROF ARTHUR I MILLER, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science,
University College London; DR DREW MILNE, Faculty of English, University of
Cambridge.
