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Justine Hopkins - Controversy and Confrontation: 150 Years of Making Sculpture Matter

Lecture 1: 'Because I have something to say': Form, Symbol and the New Sculpture

Covers the sculpture renaissance of the late 19th and early 20th century; artists include Alfred Gilbert, George Frampton, Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein 

Lecture 2: 'Blows of the hammer, beats of the heart': Sculpture of war and remembrance

Focuses on the period from 1914 to the 1950s and how sculpture became an expressive medium for exploring the traumas of war and its aftermath, including the rise of abstract sculpture. Artists include Brancusi, Moore, Hepworth, Käthe Kollwitz and Giacometti

Lecture 3: 'An instrument for thinking': Sculpture across the millennium

A broad sweep across the remarkable developments in sculpture since 1960, including the works of Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley, Maggi Hambling and Richard Long.

Justine studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. She has lectured regularly for Tate Britain, Tate Modern, V&A, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, as well as to Oxbridge and Bristol Universities, Christie's Fine Art, the Art Fund, and groups such as the Bradford on Avon Arts Association, Friends of Covent Garden and U3A. Her publications include, amongst others, The Art of John Martin (2001), Michael Ayrton: A Biography (1994) and articles for Apollo Magazine and Modern Painters. She has also broadcast on Flowers in Art for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.  

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