EXHILIRATING ENERGIES FROM THE EAST: THE IMPACT OF ARTIST-EMIGRES FROM
EASTERN EUROPE ON BRITISH CULTURE, 1900-1950s

26-27 February 2009, Kingston University.

Over the past three years a number of important exhibitions in the UK
have touched upon the stimulating interaction between artists from
Eastern Europe, or with Eastern European connections, with British
visual culture during the first half of the twentieth century. This
conference will offer in-depth and informed analysis of the experience
of artists from Eastern Europe and/or with significant Eastern European
links in the UK and the extent to which they transformed indigenous
attitudes towards and appreciate of currents from the mainstream of
European Modernism.

The conference is being held in association with the major retrospective
exhibition, Dora Gordine: Sculptor, Artist, Designer running at the
Dorich House Museum between 11 February-22 March and Kingston Museum 11
February - 2 May 2009.

Speakers include: Richard Cork, Henry Meyrick Hughes, Steven Mansbach,
Evelyn Silber, Jonathan Black, Sarah MacDougal.

Artists featured will include: Herbert Bayer, David Bomberg, Bill
Brandt, Serge Chermayeff, Ernst Eisenmayer, Jacob Epstein, Naum Gabo,
Mark Gentler, Dora Gordine, John Heartfield, Hein Heckroth, Jacob
Kramer, Erich Mendelsohn, Ivan Mestrovic, Laslo Moholy-Nagy, Oscar
Nemon, Hans Schleger, Ossip Zadkine.

For more details, see: www.kingston.ac.uk/fada/VAMCRC

To book online, visit:
https://ebiz.kingston-university.com/webStore/courses/coursedetails.asp?
CourseDateID=230&CourseID=147

Organised by the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre at Kingston
University.