Avant-Garde Studies

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Happy New Year! Starting 2022 with Hilma af Klint's 'Group X, No. 1, Altarpiece' (1915):

Happy Holidays!

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.

Thanks to Mick Sheldon - and to everybody who took part - for a thought-provoking study group session on Hugo von Hofmannsthal's "Chandos Letter".

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

Girl with Red Flagpole, 1933 #kazimirmalevich #neoclassicism

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!

ROSTA Window 867 (1921), Vladimir Mayakovsky

Solidarity with @BirkbeckUCU and @UCU members on strike this week ✊ #OneOfUsAllOfUs

We'll be back on 15 December with Michael Sheldon, to discuss the Chandos Letter by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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

This is tomorrow!

@RobrtDaleParker @Facebook Unfair on Cendrars!

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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Max Beckmann's The Grenade (1915):

Marking avant-garde opposition to WW1 on Remembrance Day. Käthe Kollwitz’s 'The Mothers', from 'War' (1923):