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Seeking the ‘Marvellous’: the Wonderful World of the Surrealists

The Arts Society Dumfries and Galloway Tuesday 12^th May 11am – 12.30pm

Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries

Seeking the ‘Marvellous’: the Wonderful World of the Surrealists

Our lecturer in May is Joshua White an enthusiastic art historian and an experienced lecturer in 19th and 20th century European and American art, international contemporary art, photography, design and architecture. Joshua was also director of The London Art Course at Christie’s and is a former BBC journalist and founder and presenter of The Art Channel.

Surrealism is one of modern art’s most extraordinary and influential movements, led by the French writer André Breton, the Surrealists movement shared the horror and futility of the First World War and a fascination with Sigmund Freud’s new theories of psychoanalysis and investigation of dreams. Consciously revolutionary and deliberately shocking, the Surrealists represented the ultimate expression of the youth of their time.

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