Wednesdays, 6.30 – 8.30pm |25th September – 23rd October
A relaxed five-week class exploring painting, sculpture, architecture, in the American Context.
From the arrival of the first Europeans at the end of the middle-ages, and their first interactions with the indigenous populations, to the revolutionary politics, architecture, and image-making of the Founding Fathers, the robber barons of Gilded Age New York, and cowboys on the frontier. Iconoclastic pilgrims from England, tortured slaves from Africa, huddled refugees forced into slums, and dreamers seeking fortune making it big, all have their part to play in the forging of American culture.
From sea to shining sea, the Rockies to the Appalacians, the prairie to the mesa, the metropolis to the wilderness, the art of the United States is as varied as its landscape. Despite its relative youth, the USA possesses a unique and varied visual culture, inflected and invigorated by all the different people who have arrived on its shores, willingly or otherwise, over the last three centuries. In this brand-new course, presented by Art Historian Morgan Haigh, we will discover the little known story of the art of the USA. From its humble beginning as a colonial out-post, to New York’s meteoric rise to capital of the art world, expect Jefferson, Singer Sargent, O’Keeffe, Pollock, Hopper, Lloyd Wright, Warhol, Homer, Krasner, and more…
Led by expert art historian, writer, and BBC contributor Morgan Haigh MA of The Courtauld Institute of Art and The Center for the Art of the Americas, London, this is the latest in a series of popular courses and lectures hosted by The Turner House Gallery, Penarth.
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