Artists and designers have always imitated their predecessors. This is a lecture by Barry Venning that deals with artistic borrowing, drawing on a very wide range of art and design. The artists on whom it touches include Constable, Leonardo, Manet, Warhol, Turner, Dali, Harry Beck (creator of the Tube Map) and Alexander McQueen (fashion designer).It concludes with the strange 'afterlife' of Alfred Leete's famous WW1 recruiting poster of Lord Kitchener... See more >