May lecture will be surreal

A LECTURE on the Surrealist movement will take place in Dumfries this week.

It is presented by The Arts Society Dumfries and Galloway and will be held at the Easterbrook Hall on Tuesday from 11 am.

Speaker Joshua White will discuss ‘Seeking the ‘Marvellous’: the Wonderful World of the Surrealists’.

He is an enthusiastic art historian and experienced lecturer in 19th and 20th century European and American art, international contemporary art, photography, design and architecture. Joshua was also director of The London Art Course at Christie’s and is a former BBC journalist and founder and presenter of The Art Channel.

A society spokesperson said: “Surrealism is one of modern art’s most extraordinary and influential movements, led by the French writer André Breton. The Surrealists movement shared the horror and futility of the First World War and a fascination with Sigmund Freud’s new theories of psychoanalysis and investigation of dreams.

“Consciously revolutionary and deliberately shocking, the Surrealists represented the ultimate expression of the youth of their time.”