This symposium sets the Walter-Guillaume Collection in its historical context. It is a collection representing the modern art of its time. It excludes or skimps certain tendencies while generously emphasising others. What does the collection "say" about its era -- the troubled period between two world wars?

Five distinguished speakers contribute to this event. The keynote speaker, Wayne C. Andersen, has published ground-breaking books and articles on Gauguin, Cézanne and Picasso among others.

Enrolment gives unlimited access to the exhibition throughout the weekend.

Programme

• 10am Registration
• 10.30am Welcome. Edmund Capon, Director, AGNSW
• 10.35am Keynote Lecture - Post 1918: The Aftermath of Cubism. Wayne C. Andersen, Professor Emeritus at MIT, Boston
• 11.45am Morning Tea
• 12 noon Against Method: Cézanne, Matisse and the Aesthetic of Improvisation. Terence Maloon, Curator of Special Exhibitions, AGNSW
• 12.45-2pm Lunch and exhibition viewing
• 2pm Wartime Propaganda and its Influence in the 1920s. John Williams, Historian and Photographer
• 2:45pm Renoir’s Reputation. Ursula Prunster, Curator, Special Projects & Museum Educator, AGNSW
• 3.30pm Afternoon Tea
• 3.45pm Ingres and the ‘Return to Order’ in the 1920s. Roger Benjamin, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
• 4:30pm Concluding remarks