The 1930s: The Making of The New Man

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Educational Activities

Audioguide | Lectures | Meet the curator | Film series

Audioguides

6 June – 7 September
Audioguide to the exhibition. A selection of works also has verbal descriptions for visitors who are blind or have visual impairments. Cost $6.

Lectures

Cost: Adults: $5; seniors and full-time students: $4 and Members: $3. Gallery admission not included. REGISTER NOW – call 613-998-8888.

Saturday 3 May at 2 pm
The Biology of Degeneration in the Interwar Years, 1919–1940 by Garland Allen, expert on eugenics, history and philosophy of biology at Washington University, St. Louis.

Saturday 10 May at 2 pm
Les années trente revisitées by Constance Naubert-Riser, member of the curatorial committee and professor emeritus, Université de Montréal. In French with simultaneous interpretation. In the Lecture Hall.

Saturday 17 May at 2 pm
‘Spiritual Mothers,' Mothers of the Volk, and 'New Women': Right Wing Women's Discourses about Motherhood in 1930s Germany by Rosemarie Schade, historian at Concordia University, Montreal, with an interest in the German Feminist and Youth Movement prior to 1940. In the Lecture Hall.

Saturday 24 May at 2 pm
Fascism, Modernism, and the Cult of Youth by Mark Antliff, specialist on fascist generational politics and the impact of Italian fascist ideology on the French avant-garde, Duke University, Durham. North Carolina. In the Lecture Hall.

Saturday 7 June at 2 pm
Figures du géant et du tyran dans l’art des années 1930 by Jean Clair, head of the exhibition’s curatorial committee, editor of the catalogue, and former director of the Picasso Museum, in Paris. In French with simultaneous interpretation. In the Auditorium.

Sunday 20 July at 2 pm
The 1930s: A Canadian View by Charles Hill, Curator of Canadian art. In the Lecture Hall.

Sunday 10 August at 2 pm
Photography in the 1930s by Ann Thomas, member of the exhibition’s curatorial committee, and NGC Curator of Photography. In the Lecture Hall.

Meet the Curator

Friday 6 June at 12:15 pm
Visit the exhibition with Didier Ottinger, member of the exhibition’s curatorial committee and chief curator at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris. In French with bilingual discussion. Included with admission to the exhibition.

Film Series

Thursdays 10 July to 14 August at 7pm
A presentation of films that explore the themes of the exhibition. Screenings are in DVD format. In the Lecture Hall. Free admission.

Thursday 10 July
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1945, 110 min
Director: Albert Lewin
In English.

Thursday 17 July
Frankenstein, 1931, 69 min
Director: James Whale
In English.

Thursday 24 July
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, 1994, 180 min
Director: Ray Müller
In English and German with English subtitles.

Thursday 31 July
La Belle et la bête (Beauty and the Beast), 1946, 93 min
Director: Jean Cocteau
In French with English subtitles.

Thursday 7 August
Amarcord, 1973, 123 min
Director: Frederico Fellini
In Italian with English Subtitles.

Thursday 14 August
The Great Dictator, 1940, 124 min
Director: Charlie Chaplin
In English.