Art History
Lecturer: Dr Caroline Levisse
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20th-Century American Art
In May, June and July, Caroline will be exploring 20th Century American Art – another fascinating topic. We will be running more lectures in-house – see the detailed schedule below.
In addition, we are hoping to arrange some gallery trips.
7 June – In house lecture: American Modernism: Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Stanton Macdonald-Wright
14 June – Zoom online – Great American Photographers: Steichen, Stieglitz, Strand, Adams, and Lange
21 June – In-house lecture: Social Realism: Ben Shahn, Isamu Noguchi, and the Harlem Renaissance
28 June – Zoom online – American regionalism: (T. Hart Benton, Grant Wood) and Edward Hopper
5 July – In-house lecture: Abstract Expressionism and Colour-Field Painting: Pollock, Newman, Rothko, Frankenthaler
12 July – Zoom online – Neo-Dada and Pop Art: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, and Warhol
19 July – In-house lecture – Minimalism and after: great contemporary American artists
About the lecturer
Dr Caroline Levisse, an art historian based in London, was born in France where she studied art history before moving to Copenhagen to take up a teaching post. While there, she completed a PhD on the relationship between art and religion in contemporary Scandinavian art. She then moved to London and started teaching art history with adult education providers. She has since developed a range of courses focusing on 19th and early 20th century Western art and has published articles in both French and English in academic journals as well as magazines and newspapers.
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