The Avant Garde: Study Day

To accompany the current British Library exhibition Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900–1937 the British Library, in partnership with the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, have organised a study day to explore the various movements that made up the European Avant Garde.

Talks by leading academics include:

• DaDa: Word and Image
  Professor Dawn Ades, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex

• Futurism: From Visual Poetry to Electronic Media Art
  Dr Günter Berghaus, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Drama, University of Bristol
• Avant Garde City
  Dr Andrew Webber, Deputy Head of Department of German and Dutch Churchill College, University of Cambridge
• Reading Between the Lines: Avant Garde Publishing and its Jewish Questions
  Professor Michael Berkowitz, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London
• Avant Garde under dictatorships
  Frank Whitford, Author of Avant Garde related titles
• How Avant Garde ideas have fed the growth of the internet
  Charlie Leadbetter, Author and Advisor on Innovation Strategy
  

Price: £15.00 (concessions £10.00)
Ticket cost includes Tea and Coffee. Lunch not included.

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