Saturday 11 November 2006, 19.30–21.00

An illustrated talk exploring the development of Roger Hilton's work in the wider context of European Modernism. Charles Harrison is Professor of History and Theory of Modern Art at the Open University, and author of a wide number of publications including English Art and Modernism and the Tate Series publication Modernism.

Hilton was much occupied by the sense of a need for truth in art. In his 'Remarks about Painting', published in 1961, he wrote 'I see art as an instrument of truth, or it is nothing'. Much of his work was then abstract, and he clearly had something other than truth to appearances in mind. The aim of this talk will be to consider how notions of truth and falsehood might have applied to the art of painting during the period of Hilton's mature activity. It will be argued that the question is of some relevance to the critical and art-historical estimation of his work.

Tate St Ives 
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended

  

This event is related to the Into Seeing New: Roger Hilton exhibition