David Bomberg and radical concepts of realism in art
A talk from Dr Martyn Hudson. Part of the Bomberg exhibition programme.
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Dates
4 April 2018 (historic event)
About
Dr Martyn Hudson of Northumbria University examines the art-historical contest over the work of Bomberg by influential thinker John Berger and other critics like David Sylvester. He expands on what Berger meant by ‘realism’ and how we can hope to understand the art history of ‘realism’ by overcoming and challenging Berger’s own account of David Bomberg’s work.
John Berger, who died in early 2017, was an artist, art critic, novelist, poet and revolutionary. Indisposed as he was to abstract expressionism and many forms of non-figurative modernism, considering them to be the cultural bag-carriers of imperialism, he developed a distinctive socialist realist position on the depiction of the human form.
Dr Martyn Hudson is Lecturer in Art and Design History at Northumbria University. He has published extensively on critical theory, including his work with both John Berger and Jean Mohr on critical reviews of their work.
