2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Founded in 1994, THE COURSE offers art history lectures, opera and literature courses, guided museum visits and London walks.
IN this series of 5 lectures, Patrick Bade, will explore what happened at the end of the Great War and how 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.
Neo Neo Classicism
In the 4th lecture, we will examine the end of the First World War and see what Jean Cocteau called “the return to order” and a rival of classicism in the visual arts. This lecture will look at the Classical revival between the wars.