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Received: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:42:06 AM BST
From: "Malika Browne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Malika Browne" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Hermitage Rooms lecture
Dear friends
I thought some of you might be interested in this lecture at the Hermitage
Rooms at Somerset House, the latest Friends of the Hermitage event.
Avant-garde Russian porcelain might sound very niche (and to a certain extent
it is!), but this should be a fascinating lecture. I only wish I could be
there myself. I am a big fan of the Lomonosov factory in St Petersburg and the
proud owner of a Malevich teapot! The accompanying exhibition should be great
too. Please pass on to Russophiles and anyone else who might be interested.
Love Malika
Friends of the Hermitage
25 November 2004, 18.00, £5 (please pay at the door, 150 seats)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, Strand
A lecture, jointly organised with Learning at Somerset House, to celebrate
the exhibition in the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House, Circling the Square:
Avant-Garde Porcelain from Revolutionary Russia
Russian Revolutionary and Propaganda Porcelain
by the leading expert in the field, Princess Nina Lobanov-Rostovsky, author
of Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain 1917-1927 (Studio Vista , 1990)
and a well known collector of Russian theatre design. Princess Lobanov
writes:
Porcelain and propaganda have been linked from the time porcelain was first
produced in China in the sixth century and Chinese emperors used it as gifts
to flaunt the unique treasures of their realm. Later, the French Revolution,
the Crimean War, the Boer War and the First World War were fought, not only
with guns, but also with propaganda in the form of plates, pitchers and
figurines.
However, it was the Soviet leaders, immediately after the October Revolution
of 1917, who had the idea of using porcelain as a systematic means of
propaganda within Russia and abroad. Stacks of unpainted, glazed platters,
plates, cups and saucers found in the imperial factory were transformed into
message- bearers for the revolution. What better way to get into people's
homes in those pre-radio days than with a plateful of propaganda? Talented
artists, under the guidance of Sergei Chekhonin, decorated the porcelain in a
variety of styles from flower-decorated slogans to Suprematism. The lecture
and slides will describe the various facets of Russian revolutionary
porcelain.
Friends of the Hermitage 5 Seaford Court, 220 Great Portland St., London W1W
5QR, Tel 020 7387 6067
To join the Hermitage International Friends Club
www.subscribeonline.co.uk/hermitage or tel 01795 414 878
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