Talk
A New Look at St Ives by Michael Bird
22 Apr 2015
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£10 / £8 (Friends)
Address
- 48 Hopton Street
- Bankside
- London
England - SE1 9JH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- We are within walking distance of Blackfriars, Southwark, Waterloo and London Bridge Tube Stations.
- Blackfriars rail station is a 2 minute walk away.
Event map
Michael Bird reassesses St Ives' place in the cultural landscape of postwar Britain.
About
Crucible of Modern Art or Cornish sideshow?
Michael Bird reassesses St Ives' place in the cultural landscape of postwar Britain. He shows how the artists who arrived in the 1940s and 1950s were looking for all kinds of things and experimenting with many types of practice, from constructivism to action painting and photomonage.
Michael Bird is a writer and art historian. His books include The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time and monographs on Sandra Blow, Bryan Wynter and Lynn Chadwick. He is currently writng a children's history of art, to be published by Laurence King in 2015.
