The Real and the Romantic: English Art between Two World Wars course
Frances Spalding will discuss art at a time of gradual recovery from war; a need for entertainment; a gradual increase of interest in modernity and the a growing awareness of the darkening international horizon.
The works during this period reminds us that art is not cut off from life but is inseparable from it, and that it resonates with the culture and society from which it has emerged.
About the Speaker
Frances Spalding CBE is an art historian, critic and biographer. She has a specialist interest in 20th century British art. She has written about the work and lives of artist such as Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Duncan Grant, Gwen Raverat and John and Myfanwy Piper, as well as a biography of the poet Stevie Smith. She is Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and in 2005 was made a CBE for Services to Literature.
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