2.30pm
Lars Tharp Lecture
Twixt Pots and Pox
College Hall
Buy tickets: £15

Lars Tharp, Ceramic historian and broadcaster gets under the skin of Georgian England, often with the assistance of the greatest artist of the period, William Hogarth; when images and objects are combined vivid impressions of a supposedly genteel period are forged in the audience’s mind. Born in Denmark and educated in England, Lars read archaeology at Cambridge before a 16-year career at Sothebys, specializing in Ceramics; since the 1980s he has lectured throughout the world on “objects” and their context; a Trustee of the Museum of Worcester Porcelain and Chairman of London’s Hogarth Group, he is equally passionate about music, noting that Hogarth himself was an early member of the Academy of Ancient Music

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