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The @DerekJarmanLab is crowdfunding for a short, experimental film based on an unpublished essay by the British-Mexican Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. To read more about the campaign, and to pledge money, visit: kck.st/3LJ9mN6.
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Happy New Year! Starting 2022 with Hilma af Klint's 'Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece' (1915):
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Thanks to Mick Sheldon - and to everybody who took part - for a thought-provoking study group session on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Chandos Letter".
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We're now finished for the term, but we'll be back in the New Year. As usual, please get in touch if you'd like to suggest a topic for discussion: mail@agstudies.co.uk.
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Happy Holidays!
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Looking forward to this tomorrow!
For our last study group before Christmas, Mick Sheldon is leading a discussion of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Ein Brief"/"The Letter of Lord Chandos" (1902). Online, Wed 15 Dec, 7:30pm (GMT). Contact mail@agstudies.co.uk for the reading and a link to join. Come one, come all!
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Girl with Red Flagpole, 1933 #kazimirmalevich #neoclassicism
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For our last study group before Christmas, Mick Sheldon is leading a discussion of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Ein Brief"/"The Letter of Lord Chandos" (1902). Online, Wed 15 Dec, 7:30pm (GMT). Contact mail@agstudies.co.uk for the reading and a link to join. Come one, come all!
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Solidarity with @BirkbeckUCU and @UCU members on strike this week ✊ #OneOfUsAllOfUs
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ROSTA Window 867 (1921), Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Thanks to @abigael_vA for leading such a stimulating discussion about the work of Blaise Cendrars! Below: From Cendrars' 'The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame', illustrated by Fernand Léger
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We'll be back on 15 December with Michael Sheldon, to discuss the Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
This is tomorrow!
We're excited about our next study group on Blaise Cendrars, which will be led by @abigael_vA. Contact mail@agstudies.co.uk for the materials and link to join. All welcome. Online, 19:30 (GMT), Wed 17 Nov. Below: Amedeo Modigliani's 'Portrait of Blaise Cendrars' (1917)
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We're excited about our next study group on Blaise Cendrars, which will be led by @abigael_vA. Contact mail@agstudies.co.uk for the materials and link to join. All welcome. Online, 19:30 (GMT), Wed 17 Nov. Below: Amedeo Modigliani's 'Portrait of Blaise Cendrars' (1917)
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Marking avant-garde opposition to WW1 on Remembrance Day. Käthe Kollwitz’s 'The Mothers', from 'War' (1923):
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Max Beckmann's The Grenade (1915):
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THIS THREAD IS A FUTURIST-FREE ZONE
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