27
March 2025

Fin de Siecle

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Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 10:30
Henfield Hall, Henfield
Coopers Way Henfield BN5 9EQ
Online Event

The day will include studies of Sickert, Wilde, Beardsley, et al. The price is £35 per person.

Fin de siècle is a French term meaning "end of century,” a phrase which typically encompasses both the meaning of the similar English idiom "turn of the century" and also makes reference to the closing of one era and onset of another.

The term is commonly applied to French art and artists, as the traits of the culture first appeared there, but the movement affected many European countries. It became applicable to the sentiments and traits associated with the culture, as opposed to focusing solely on the movement's initial recognition in France.

There will be a full day of lectures, including coffee, and a light lunch.  A booking form will be available below from the February lecture, when we will be accepting bookings in person. Payment may be made by bank transfer, or by credit/debit card. Please note, we cannot accept cash payments, and no refunds will be made.

The cost for the day's lectures will be £35 per person, including a light lunch.

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Matthew Sturgis

Matthew Sturgis is the author of acclaimed biographies of three of the great cultural figures of the late nineteenth century: Oscar Wilde, Walter Sickert and Aubrey Beardsley. (His biography of Oscar Wilde was shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize.) He has also written a history of the English Decadence of the 1890s. A.N. Wilson - writing in the Times Literary Supplement - described him as ’the greatest chronicler of the 1890s we have ever had.’ His historical and cultural interests also led him to write a book - When In Rome - chronicling the history of how Rome has been visited, and the artworks tourists have admire there, over the millennia - from Classical and Medieval times, via the Renaissance and the Grand Tour, to our own era.