When:
June 13, 2018 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2018-06-13T10:45:00+01:00
2018-06-13T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The Course at The University Women's Club
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Cost:
£59
Contact:
Established in 1994, THE COURSE offers innovative and exciting lectures in Art History, Literature, Opera and Music.
How can we know, before we ever go there, that a new place will exhilarate us? Painting, photography, fiction, travel-writing, and poetry can put us on the plane with expectations, and pictures in our minds, and of course we then match what they promise against the realities that await us. Afterwards, art and writing intensify what we found, show us sights we missed, clothing our memories of them in the aura of legend as they had our hopes, so we may wonder if they exist when we are not there. Exhilarating Places visits charismatic cultural centres of our world and others we have dreamed of and invented. They catch our eye and instantly deliver both real and imagined destinations in great art and writing.
Avalon
Based on legends from the Arthurian tradition, Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur, still able to transport us to the shores of this island, is the centerpiece of a literary line-up led by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Isadore of Seville, Caradoc, Gerard de Wales, Chrétien de Troye, the Mabinogion, Tennyson, William Morris, Bonwick, T H White, Steinbeck, Rackham, Atwood and Garner, and art from Burne-Jones, D G Rossetti, Maclise, Beardsley, James Archer, Flint, Wyeth and Lotte Reiniger.