Two hour lectures — art and literature.
LECTURES are preferably inter-active. They are intended to demonstrate the life style and talents that moulded people into the history books. In some cases VHS archival material accompanies the lecture. For students these lecturers give an in-depth
insight into each character and their works.
Subject range is varied.
WRITERS: The Parisian Scene — For Example.
- Colette: The French Novelist. Her life and times.
Colette-the Burgundian girl who married a well connected
French businessman. Colette’s journey is both risqué and bold.
Her books have endured and she is much revered even today
- Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas: Gertrude and her experimentation with
language both confused and ignited passionate debate. Was she
the genius, Alice thought she was? In American she was feted
as a true Modernist. In Paris, she struggled to get published.
- Ernest Hemingway: He and Gertrude once were friends. A stormy
relationship but it set Hemingway on the path to fame. His life
was one of macho endeavours, but it ended with a bang.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Scott and Zelda - Part of the Lost Generation so
said Gertrude Stein. His books epitomized the Jazz Age and an
extravagant life style that could only end in tragedy for both he and
Zelda.
- Edith Warton: A rich fellow American Ex-Pat. who also lived in Paris
in the Belle Epoch and Art Nouveau period. She harboured a strong
dislike for her fellow ex-pats — except for a very select few. A writer
of books such as "The Age of Innocence"
- Edith Sitwell. British of course — who spent time in Paris. Her strange
lyrical poetry, her equally unusual background and her hopeless
love for a Russian painter. An interesting family shaped her
destiny.
Other Parisians include — All the painters from Renoir to Picasso.
Russian Painters and dancers living in Paris — Chagall, Tchlitchew, Benois,
Barrault. for example.
Other writers and painters include George Johnstone and Charmian Clift.
Patrick White, Alice Munro, Janet Frame, Vali Myers, and many more.
email: books@jillmather.thewriter.com.au
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