Resource person: Audra Bullard - office@clehighlands.com

Description:

This presentation will review two major modern art movements, 19th c. Impressionism and 20th c. Surrealism, and place them in the context of the social and political upheavals that gave rise to them. We’ll review the bitter and brutal Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and the subsequent internecine violence of the Paris Commune to reveal the connection between a failed revolution and Impressionism in the last decades of the 19th c. We will then pivot to the advent of Surrealism as a response to the horrors of World War I. Participants will come away with a better appreciation of the tight connection between art, society, and politics.

Max Owre is the Executive Director of Carolina Public Humanities. A graduate of the University of Vermont, he obtained his PhD in modern European history from UNCCH in 2008. Max is a lecturer in the History Department, teaching courses in European, world and colonial history since 2007. Max is a principal organizer, and frequent host and moderator of CPH Events. He also lectures frequently for CPH on various topics in French and European history.

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