Tasb lecture: Art and Revolution: The Russian avant-garde during the Steel Age

Lecture by Rosamund Bartlett: Before the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, Russian artists staged a daring revolution of their own by changing the language of art. Suddenly they became the leaders of the European avant-garde. At the time of the Revolution, some like Stravinsky, Goncharova and Roerich, chose to remain in emigration, in the hope of one day returning to Russia, while others, like Kandinsky, Chagall and Malevich, went on to play a leading role in early Soviet culture, amidst utopian hopes for a bright future.
Lecture starts at 20.00 and drinks at 19.30