Lecture on Picasso and Cubism

John Finlay Will speak on

Ripolin, flags, wicker and wood: Picasso's "Notre Avenir est dans
    l'Air" (1912) and the Invention of Cubist Sculpture, 1912-14
Robing Room at Freemason's Hall
60 Great Queen Street
London WC2B 5AZ.
Monday, 26 September 2016

Doors open at 6pm
Talk 6:30 - 8pm

Freemasons Hall is close to both Covent Garden and Holborn Tube
Stations.

Cubism was the artistic counterpart of the upheaval that was
happening in technology, manufacturing, and engineering--a
transformation that required new working methods and materials of
production.  My talk particularises these ideas by showing that
Picasso's earliest Cubist sculpture relied heavily on the artist's
empathy with aviation pioneers and his personal assimilation of that
identity.  Picasso's earliest constructions and wall assemblages
have acquired great scholarly recognition, but as this talk makes
evident using interrelated Cubist sculptures, paintings and collages
of 1912-14 as my central focus, they justify a fresh investigation
in the light of the new inventions and the labours of aviators and
concomitant operators.  This article not only elaborates on the
scholarship of those who have proposed comparable ideas for the
worker in the context of Cubism, but also makes effective use of
(and responds to) some of the important technical findings in
relation to Picasso's use of Ripolin paint and other materials used
in his Cubist work.

John Finlay studied Art History and Theory at Essex University
(1989-92) and received his MA (1993) and PhD on 'Picasso's
Constructions and Assemblages: 1912-35' from the Courtauld Institute
of Art, London (1998).  He is a historian of French history,
specialising in twentieth-century modern art.  Finlay has
contributed articles to the Burlington Magazine and the Musee
Picasso, Paris, where has published on topics including Picasso,
Giacometti, Cubism and Surrealism.  His book Picasso's World was
published by Carlton Books (London) and Larousse (as Le Monde de
Picasso) in 2011.  His new book Pop! is published by Goodman Books
(2016).

Tickets:

    ICON members: UKP10
    Non-members:  UKP15
    Students:   UKP5 (student card required to be shown on the door)

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