“SUBJECTS OF COMMON AND FAMILIAR LIFE"
Saturday 14 September 2013 at 2pm
“SUBJECTS
OF COMMON AND FAMILIAR LIFE, SUCH AS HAVE NOT BEEN TOUCHED BY OTHER ARTISTS”: BEWICK’S COUNTRY SCENES IN CONTEXT.
A lecture by Professor Diana Donald
Bewick’s earthy
view of rural life seems to be almost a parody of the idealising scenes
produced by many painters of his time. Yet the naturalism of these
images masks unexpected tensions: they express Bewick’s troubled response to the great agricultural changes then
taking place – changes which his own friends promoted.
Diana Donald
is a retired Professor of Art History and Head of the Department of History of Art and Design at
Manchester
Metropolitan University. She is the author of many books including
Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts
(2009) and Picturing Animals in Britain,
1750 - 1850 (2007).
Her latest book
The Art of Thomas Bewick will be published by Reaktion
Books in June 2013 and Diana’s illustrated lecture will be based on her
research for the book.
Date and time:
Saturday 14 September at 2.00pm.
Venue:
The Clore Lecture Theatre,
Ground Floor
Hancock Museum,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4PT.
Admission: Free
Contact:
June Holmes at
the Natural History Society of Northumbria,
Great North
Museum: Hancock, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4PT. Tel no. 0191 222 5834 or e-mail
bewick.society@newcastle.ac.uk
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