Past Highlights.
November 08 The Shock of the New
Phillipa Bassett

This is the graphic story of ‘modern’ art movements from the 1860s to the 1920s, and explains how artists reacted to the rapid social, economic and technological changes of the period - especially photography. Wonderful ‘isms’ abound as Pop Art approaches, from Impressionism to Post Impressionism, from Cubism to Surrealism, Russian Constructivism to Futurism. The speaker, a first-class honours graduate of the Open University and art history tutor for the University of the Third Age, adopts her title from the 1980 BBC series on how artists change, and are changed by, society.                                                 COLOUR SLIDES