PICASSO: PEACE and FREEDOM
Posted on | March 20, 2013 | No Comments
Dear Friend and supporter,
We are delighted to offer another opportunity for you to attend Professor
Lynda Morris’s illustrated talk about Picasso’s involvement in the
politics of the Twentieth Century. Please see information below on this
ground breaking appraisal of Picasso’s life .
PICASSO: PEACE and FREEDOM
The Battle for Picasso’s Mind 1945 – 1973
Public talk and slide presentation on the political activism one of the
twentieth century’s greatest artists
by
Professor Lynda Morris
Chair of Curation, Norwich University of the Arts
Wednesday 20th March 2013, 7pm
Lecture Theatre 3, University of East Anglia,
Norwich NR4 7TJ
http://www.ueaconferences.com/docs/Campus_Map.pdf
Map Reference: Campus Services, C4
Free Admission
Pablo Picasso is popularly known as a pre-eminent 20th Century artist and
creative genius, co-founder of Cubism, showman and playboy; but less is
known about his political involvement. A ground-breaking exhibition at the
Tate Liverpool, explored his political activism in relation to his art and
his involvement with the French Communist Party following World War Two.
Following the overwhelming response last year Lynda Morris, co-curator of
the exhibition, has agreed to re-present the talk about this aspect of
Picasso’s life. The talk will be followed by a short Q&A session.
Picasso never took up arms but used his art to challenge war and its human
cost. His most famous related work is ‘Guernica,’ the 25 foot expression
of his outrage at the aerial bombardment of the Basque town by the fascist
forces in 1937.
Professor Morris founded the ‘EASTinternational’ exhibition and last year
was invited to lecture in Guernica by the Basque government on the 75th
anniversary of the bombing. The previous year she was in Ramallah to
lecture on ‘Buste de Femme’, the first Picasso painting to be shown within
the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
‘Dear Lynda…’ celebrating Lynda Morris’s life as curator, writer and art
historian, organised by White Columns in New York, will be showing at ‘The
Gallery’ Norwich University of the Arts, St George’s Street, from 30 March
to 25 May 2013, after showings in London, Dundee and BQ Berlin.
‘Documenting Cadere, 1972 to 1978’ curated by Professor Morris, recently
closed at Modern Art Oxford and is travelling to MUS.EE Ostend until March
and then to Artists Space, New York, in April – May 2013
http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/andre-cadere/about/
Organised by Norwich Stop the War Coalition in conjunction with Hazel
Marsh, LCS, UEA, and Norwich University of the Arts
Further information: Peter Offord 07757 752485, Frank Stone 01493 664499,
Hazel.Marsh@uea.ac.uk
Kind regards in solidarity,
Peter Offord, Vice chair, Norwich Stop the War Coalition
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