Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study art history at university.
Session time: Monday 7 December, 12.45-1.30pm
In this live, interactive History of Art session, we will be joined by Dr Ed Krčma, Associate Professor of Art History in the School of History and Art History at University of East Anglia, who will present The Art of Romare Bearden – Identity, Improvisation and City Life.
This session explores the extraordinary work of African American artist Romare Bearden (1911-88), focusing on the collage-based images he made in the 1960s. Bearden grew up between North Carolina in the South, the industrial city of Pittsburgh – also Andy Warhol’s home town – and Harlem, the Black capital of New York City. Especially since the 60s, Bearden established himself as one of the key artists and organisers of the day. His work explores the richness and complexity of Black experience in the era of Civil Rights. Like jazz music, his collages and Photostats draw on tradition but burst into the present with all the vitality, complexity and unpredictability that comes with the ability to improvise skilfully. Bearden drew inspiration from the European Old Masters, from African art and culture, from the contemporary mass media, and from the gritty and joyful realities of everyday life of an American society in the throes of transformation.
Suitable for: Aged 16+ pre-university students studying, or with a possible interest in studying, History of Art and related disciplines. Student groups, and individual students and teachers are very welcome to join us.
For details and to book your place, visit:
https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/history-of-art-the-art-of-romare-bearden-identity-improvisation-and-city-life-with-dr-edward-krcma-from-university-of-east-anglia/