History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Defiant Sculpture: Isek Bodys Kingelez and Mobutu Sese-Seko’s Authenticité, 1990s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu argues that the extravagant hypermodernity of Isek Bodys Kingelez’s architectural sculptures, as with segments of popula...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Defiant Sculpture: Isek Bodys Kingelez and Mobutu Sese-Seko’s Authenticité, 1990s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu argues that the extravagant hypermodernity of Isek Bodys Kingelez’s architectural sculptures, as with segments of popula...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Drawing the Line: Obiora Udechukwu and Nigeria’s Smiling General 1980s-1990s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980’s, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawing...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Drawing the Line: Obiora Udechukwu and Nigeria’s Smiling General 1980s-1990s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980’s, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawing...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist ...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist ...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: To speak in Parables: Dumile Feni in Hendrik Verwoerd’s South Africa, 1960s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chika Okeke-Agulu examines art & politics in 1960s South Africa paying particular attention to Hendrik Verwoerd, the self-styled “Great Induna,” &...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: To speak in Parables: Dumile Feni in Hendrik Verwoerd’s South Africa, 1960s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chika Okeke-Agulu examines art & politics in 1960s South Africa paying particular attention to Hendrik Verwoerd, the self-styled “Great Induna,”...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian artists in the Nasserite State, 1950s-1960s
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu follows the formal and tonal shifts in Gazbia Sirry’s work as it responded to, and was shaped by Nasser’s and post-rev...
Slade Lecture Series 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Okeke-Agulu presents 5 artists whose work exemplify the difficult relationship of art & power as Africa’s decolonization gave way to the emergence o...
Slade Lecture Series: Hunting in the Borderlands: Translations
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Material Histories of Medieval Iberia, held on Wednesday 2 June 2021, part of the Slade Professor of Fine Art, Annual Lecture Series, 2021. Jerrilynn ...
Slade Lecture Series: The Virgin as Colonial Agent
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Material Histories of Medieval Iberia, held on Wednesday 26 May 2021, part of the Slade Professor of Fine Art, Annual Lecture Series, 2021. Jerrilynn ...
Slade Lecture Series: Mudejar and Romanesque. Romanesque and Islam
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Material Histories of Medieval Iberia, held on Wednesday 19 May 2021, part of the Slade Professor of Fine Art, Annual Lecture Series, 2021. Jerrilynn ...
Slade Lecture Series: Babylon in Flames
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Material Histories of Medieval Iberia, held on Wednesday 12 May. Part of the Slade Professor of Fine Art, Annual Lecture Series, 2021. Jerrilynn Dodds...
Slade Lecture Series: The Great Mosque of Cordoba as Center and Periphery
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Material Histories of Medieval Iberia, held on Wednesday 5 May 2021. Part of the Slade Professor of Fine Art, Annual Lecture Series, 2021. Jerrilynn D...
Slade Lecture Series: An Agonistic History of Art
14 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Material Histories of Medieval Iberia, held on Wednesday 28 April 2021. Jerrilynn Dodds is Harlequin Adair Dammann Chair in the History of Art at Sara...
Slade Lectures 2018 (7): Barocci: The Madonna del Popolo
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Ekserdjian gives his seventh Slade Lecture on Barocci’s drawings for the Madonna del Popolo. David Ekserdjian is the Slade Professor...
Slade Lectures 2018 (5): Parmigianino: The Madonna of the Long Neck
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Ekserdjian gives his fifth Slade Lecture on Parmigianino’s drawings for the Madonna of the Long Neck. David Ekserdjian is the Slade ...
Slade Lectures 2018 (4): Correggio: The Dome of Parma Cathedral
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
art, drawing, painting, visual arts, italy David Ekserdjian is the Slade Professor 2017-18 and he presented a series of lectures titled 'From Drawing ...
Slade Lectures 2018 (3): Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Ekserdjian gives his third Slade Lecture on Raphael’s drawings for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican Palace. David Ekserdjia...
Slade Lectures 2018 (2): Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Ekserdjian gives his second Slade Lecture on Michelangelo’s drawings for the Sistine Chapel Ceiling. David Ekserdjian is the Slade P...
Slade Lectures 2018 (1): Drawing in Italy before 1500
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Ekserdjian gives his first Slade Lecture on Drawing in Italy before 1500. David Ekserdjian is the Slade Professor 2017-18 and he prese...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 8: Naturalism Strikes Back: Tradition, Consensus, Rupture
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Eighth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard T...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 7: Repudiating Naturalism: the Avant-garde Seeking Style
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Seventh lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard ...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 6: Organicism: National Energy and Natural Flux
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Sixth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Th...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 5: The 'Populaire': Identifying or Imagining Art from Below
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fifth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Th...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 4: The Caricatural: Visual Humour and Subversive Style
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Fourth lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard T...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 3: Naturalism: Flexibility or Failure of Style?
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Third lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Th...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 2: Naturalism at the Service of the Republic
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Second lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard T...
Slade Lectures 2009: Week 1: Defining the Dominant Naturalism
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
First lecture from the series "Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900" given by Professor Richard Th...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 8: Walking distance from the studio: cities, maps, and myths
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Eighth and final Slade Lecture in Surrealism and Art History given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University on 10th March...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 7: Transnational Surrealism: Tropiques and the role of the little magazine
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Seventh lecture in the Slade lecture series on Surrealism and Art History given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University ...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 6: Monuments and ruins: Surrealism and archaeology in the New World
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sixth lecture in the Slade lecture series on Surrealism and Art given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University on 24th Fe...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 5: Poetry, politics, and sexuality: Surrealism in Latin America
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Fifth lecture in the Slade lecture series given by Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University in Surrealism and Art History on...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 4: The experimental demonstration of critical paranoia: Salvador Dalí's The Tragic Myth of Millet's Angelus
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Fourth Slade lecture from Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University, given on 10th February 2010. The Slade Professorship of ...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 3: Beyond art: 'the enemy within', Georges Bataille and Documents
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University, gives the third lecture in the Slade lecture series on Surrealism and Art History....
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 2: Beyond painting: collage, objects, installations
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University gives the second Slade lecture in Surrealism and Art History on 27th January 2010. ...
Slade Lectures 2010: Week 1: Automatism and chance: Surrealist strategies and their legacies in contemporary art and film
18 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History and Theory at Essex University, gives the first Slade lecture in Surrealism and Art History on 20th January 2010. ...