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Rebels, not muses: the women artists of European modernism

Where
Art Gallery of NSW
Art Gallery of NSW
Art Gallery Road, Sydney NSW 2000
South Building, lower level 3, Domain Theatre
When

Thursday 2 February 2023 from 10:30am to 11:30am Thursday 9 February 2023 from 10:30am to 11:30am Thursday 16 February 2023 from 10:30am to 11:30am Thursday 23 February 2023 from 10:30am to 11:30am

Cost

Art Gallery member: $110 series subscriptionNon-member: $150 series subscriptionArt Gallery member: $30 single lectureNon-member: $40 single lecture

Join renowned cultural historian Rosamund Bartlett for this four-week lecture series at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The story of modern art as conventionally told inevitably runs from Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne through to Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dalí.

Over four weeks, Rosamund Bartlett, will paint a new picture of avant-garde experimentation before and after World War One by showcasing the lives and careers of the many unsung female artists who also contributed to the European Modernist movement. They include Berthe Morisot, Hilma af Klint, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Helen Saunders, Sonia Delaunay and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Rosamund Bartlett is a cultural historian with a background in Russia and Eastern Europe whose current interests focus on modernism, opera and the intersection between politics, history and the arts. She has lectured widely at galleries in the UK, including the V&A and the Ashmolean, written for both The Burlington Magazine and Apollo, and in 2020 contributed an article to the catalogue of Tate Britain’s Aubrey Beardsley exhibition.

Image: Marie Laurencin Two women with musical instrument 1935, Art Gallery of New South Wales © Estate of Marie Laurencin/ADAGP. Copyright Agency

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