Date: Saturday 27 October 2012
Time: 13.15 - 14.00, repeated at 15.15 - 16.00
Venue: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Dr Nina Lübbren introduces you to dream imagery ranging from medieval altar pieces (the dream of St Francis) to the oneiric inventions of the Surrealists in the 1930s and 40s. Looking at how dreams were evoked in paint can tell us something about the changing concept of painting itself. The surprising insight is that painting can be both a medium for capturing concrete reality while at the same time conjuring up the transcendental and the irrational.

Entrance by token. Tokens available half an hour before start of lecture.

More information is available on the BBC website.

This event is part of the 2012 Festival of Ideas. A full schedule of events can be found on the Cambridge Festival of Ideas website.

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