Host: National Gallery
Date: July 26th to August 30th
Dramatic changes characterise the 20th-century visual arts. We see an explosion of media, from traditional paint on canvas to conceptual art, installations, interventions, performance and video art.
Over six sessions we will look at some of the ideas about the new, the modern and the future that became influential during the 20th century and beyond, and demystify the concept of avant-garde art.
Particular areas of focus will include the road to Abstraction, new media, feminism, gender politics, issues of race, and art produced outside of Europe, including the United Staes, Japan and India. We will consider the influence of avant-garde art in Paris in the first part of the 20th century before its eclipse by New York after World War II, and the later importance of London and Berlin as centres of the international art market.
