This event included a series of talks and some discussion relevant to the Mima exhibition Between Dimensions: The Representation of the Object (featuring still lifes from Tate’s collection) 25th November 2011 -11th March 2012. Speakers and topics were as follows: Dr Linda Walsh, Chardin’s Still Lifes, Nature and Economics Ms Sandra Pollard, Cézanne and Cubism Professor Gill Perry, Decoration and Play in Matisse’s ‘Pink Onions’ These talks examined a range of issues, from the ‘staging’ of objects in still life compositions in the eighteenth century, to the formal innovations that made still life a crucial genre in Modernism and the wider social and cultural values referenced and challenged by still life artists. Recorded event available for Open University use only.