Art History
Dr Caroline Levisse
Event Hours(1)
Art History at the Avenue Club – Autumn Programme
Art of the Roaring Twenties
Outline (subject to change)
8 Sept. Les années folles and la garçonne: an introduction to the art of the 1920s
15 Sept. Satire and Social Critique in Germany: Dada and New Objectivity (Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Christian Schad…)
22 Sept. The Real and Romantic. Art in England in the 1920s, from Stanley Spencer and Dorra Carrington to Laura Knight
29 Sept. The Return to Order in France – Picasso, Jeanneret and Ozenfant, and Fernand Léger
6 Oct. The Machine Age in the U.S.: Precisionism (Charles Sheeler to Georgia O’Keeffe) – and Photography
13 Oct. The Machine Age in Europe: The Bauhaus and Russian art in the 1920s
20 Oct. Art Deco: Modernity Meets Fashion (Delaunay, Erté, Dunand, Tamara de Lempicka, and architecture)
27 Oct. NO SESSION
3 Nov. The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age
10 Nov. The 1920s in Central and South America: Diego Rivera, José Sabogal, and Tarsila do Amaral
17 Nov. The Surrealist Revolution
24 Nov. The School of Paris: Soutine, Chagall, Zadkine, Lipchitz
1 Dec. Sculpture in the 1920s: from Ernst Barlach to Constanti Brancusi and Henry Moore
8 Dec. Art Photography in the 1920s – The 1929 Great Crash and its consequences
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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