This three-part lecture series explores the lasting impact of WWI on the artistic production of painters and writers. Using visual art and literature, MAM Registrar Ted Hughes and University of Montana adjunct professor Lisa Simon, PhD, bring engaging and informative sessions that investigate the renaissance styles codified by the royal academies, the modernist movements that supplanted these styles, and the new forms that emerged in reaction to the killing fields of WWI. Free to MAMbers & students with IDs, $5 to the public.

November 7

The Renaissance Ideal: Dominant artistic values from the renaissance and the roots of modernism.

November 14

The Mechanical Paradise: A new aesthetic for a machine age.

November 21

Eye Deep in Hell: How WWI changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever.