THE JAZZ AGE 1/5   

When:
October 27, 2016 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2016-10-27T10:45:00+01:00
2016-10-27T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The Course at the University Women's Club
2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Cost:
£47/£54
Contact:
Mary Bromley
020 7266 7815

Founded in 1994, THE COURSE offers art history lectures, opera and literature courses, guided museum visits and London walks.

In this series of 5 on THE JAZZ AGE, Patrick Bade, will look at the end of the Great War, when the Western World attempted to forget the recent past by launching into a hedonistic decade characterized by cocktails, dance crazes and the jazzy Art Deco style. For those who could not afford Haute Couture and luxury liners there was the glamorous escapist world created by the new Hollywood studios and their European counterparts. Another and quite different response to the war was what Jean Cocteau called “The Call to Order” – a desire to return to the timeless values of Classicism. This course will explore the arts and lifestyles of this fascinating and ultimately doomed period between the wars.

ART DECO

This first lecture explores the development of the glamorous and decadent style that began to evolve in Paris before the First World War, spread across the world in the inter-war period, reaching a climax with the Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in 1925 and finally evolved into a sleeker and more streamlined style under the influence of Bauhaus modernism in the 1930s.