Art for Everyday Life talk 1 – Recording Britain in Town & County

Schedule

Wed Nov 27 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom | Oxford, EN

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Wed 27 Nov, 2–3pm
This event takes place at the Museum and online via Zoom
With Peter Vass, Fellow of Oxford Brookes University
Some of the best 20th-century British pictorial art was not found in museums and galleries, but on tanker lorries and in underground stations.
In a series of three talks, Peter Vass shows how artists like Piper, Ravilious, Sutherland and the Nash brothers became involved in commercial and government-funded projects to record landscape and life in Britain, bringing art out of the galleries and onto the High Street as part of everyday life.
Companies like Shell were making places much better known to people by using artists' representations of landscape and life to advertise their products.
However, it was a countryside under threat not only by modernisation but by the threat of war. This produced a unique project to record people and places at the time. This talk examines the art resulting from these efforts to record life in pre-war Britain.
This is the first talk in the Art for Everyday Life series led by Peter Vass.
BOOKING
This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.
Tickets are £8.
https://www.ashmolean.org/event/art-for-everyday-life-talk-1-recording-britain-in-town-country
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Beaumont St, OX1 2PH Oxford, United Kingdom, 13 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2LP, United Kingdom,Oxford, Oxfordshire

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