Welcome to the
Derby DFAS
LECTURES, 2012
Lectures
Discovering & exploring major works of art through lectures & travel
 
 

 

 

 

TUESDAYS, 7.15 pm

10th January
6.30 pm: New Members’ Get-together
7.15 pm: AGM. Followed by:
Georgian Town Gardens
James Bolton

7th February
Dickens Revisited: Bicentenary of his birth (7th February, 1812)
Jane Tapley

28th February
Lucian Freud
Jennifer Morgan

3rd April
The Great Twelve: An Introduction to the Senior Livery Companies of the City of London, their medieval origins and their role in modern society
Fenella Billington

1st May
Henry Moore – England’s Greatest Sculptor
Eveline Eaton
(Followed on Thursday, 17th May, by a visit to the Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Hertfordshire.

7h June (NEW DATE)
Architecture at the London Olympics, 2012
Anthea Streeter

2nd October
Painting and Poetry: An introduction to the Pre-Raphaelites
Suzanne Fagence Cooper
(Followed in October/November by a visit to the Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde Exhibition at Tate Britain.

6th November
J M W Turner’s “The Fighting Temeraire”: Facts and fictions behind Britain’s most popular painting
James Taylor

4th December
A History of Christmas Shopping
Claire Walsh