Augustus John is one of the great enigmas of twentieth-century art. Widely acknowledged in the early 1900s as one of the most talented and promising young British artists, his achievements are now largely overlooked.
This talk will explore his extraordinary rise and fall, from his early success before the First World War, to his slow decline after it.
David Boyd Haycock is a freelance art historian, author, curator and lecturer. He read ‘Modern History’ at St John’s College, Oxford, and has an MA in Art History from the University of Sussex and a PhD in History from the University of London.
His books have included Paul Nash (2001) and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009). He is currently writing a biography of the bohemian Welsh artist Augustus John and his young contemporaries, and curating an exhibition of British Surrealism for Dulwich Picture Gallery.This event will take place in the Edinburgh Room at the historic Lygon Arms Hotel on Broadway High Street.Tickets £10

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