This short course looks at the portrait as artistic manifesto, addressing a selection of works which reflect the artistic aims of their creators.
Representing a visual equivalent for the written manifestos that characterize Modernism, such works help to shape creative style and identity, define movements, and promote avant-garde ideals and practices.
They will consider a number of artists and works, paying particular attention to periods and movements that made especial use of this form of portrait, such as late nineteenth-century Modernism and 1970s Feminism.
Full fee £26