Description

The public is invited to a series of free lectures, “Revolutions & Revelations: Avant-Garde Art of the 20th Century”, every Thursday, 6-7:00 p.m. at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art on October 10, 17, and 24.

These three lectures follow our summer series with an examination of key movements and individual artists who influenced the history of Post-World War II avant-garde art. Both men and women artists were essential to these developments. The connections between these decades and the earlier era (1900-1945) will be defined. Taken together these movements are foundational for contemporary art practice. Wendy Slatkin, Ph.D. is an art historian specializing in 20th century art.

October 10 - 1945-1959: Abstract Expressionism, Ninth Street Women, Color Field, Pop Art, Gutai, Gorky, Pollock, Krasner, Frankenthaler, Johns, Rauschenberg

October 17 - 1960s’: West-Coast Hard Edge, Assemblage, Fluxus, Minimalism, Eccentric Abstraction, Benjamin, Louis, Warhol, Kienholz, Hesse, Saint Phalle