Painting and Pollution

A SURPRISING NEW INDUSTRIAL AESTHETIC WITH VICKI PUGH

Join Dr Vicki Pugh, Project Manager and Researcher, Institute for Social Justice at York St. John University for the second talk in this series inspired by The Bowes Museum’s current exhibition Kith & Kinship: Norman Cornish and L. S. Lowry.

This insightful talk will explore how the changing industrial landscape in the 19^th century was represented through painting and discuss how painters negotiated with the aesthetic preferences of the time, competing with a “revival” or “retreat” to the rural.