Art Lectures

The Chancellor's lectures for 1968 will be delivered by Mr Robert Melville, a prominent British art critic, well known for his regular reviews in the New Statesman and the Architectural Review.

This was announced at a recent meeting of ihe University Council.

Mr Melville has written books on Picasso, Graham Sutherland, Samuel Palmer and Sydney Nolan's "Ned Kelly" paintings.

The dates and title of the lectures which will be given in the University Memorial Theatre at 8.15 p.m. are as follow:

Tuesday, 17 September, Surrealism and its influence; 19 September, Expressionism and Abstraction in Contemporary British Art; 24 September, Pop Art, British and American; 26 September, The Erotic Element in Western Art.