'Illustration: So What?!' Reading Group,
5.30pm - 7pm
Monday 19th May, Fincham 001
Digby Stuart College,
University of Roehampton
London SW15 5PU
First session introduced by Susan Matthews (Roehampton) and Mary L. Shannon (Roehampton).
'Illustration' only takes on its central modern meaning (an illustrative picture; a drawing, plate, engraving, cut, or the like, illustrating or embellishing a literary article, a book, etc.) in 1816: its modern sense is a creation of the Romantic period. But this modern sense also marks a limitation and a decline from the word's earlier history when it carried a sense closer to 'illustrious'. This Reading Group will throw new light on the idea of illustration: our first session will ask whether we can recapture the earlier sense of light central both to this word and to illumination.
All welcome.
Texts:
1) OED definition, 'illustration' (accessible online)
2) Hillis Miller, 'Illustration' (1992): pp. 61-75; pp. 88-111; pp. 146-151 (contact [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for a pdf)
3) JMW Turner, 'The Sun of Venice Going to Sea' (exhibited 1843), Tate http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-sun-of-venice-going-to-sea-n00535
4) Olafur Eliasson: 'A View Becomes a Window' (2013)
http://www.channel4.com/news/olafur-eliasson-glass-books-tate-modern-turbine-hall
http://vimeo.com/75012416
(Eliasson's earlier work, The Weather Project (2003-4), Tate, is here, if you are interested
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-olafur-eliasson-weather-project)
We look forward to seeing you there.
Dr Mary L. Shannon
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of English and Creative Writing
University of Roehampton
London SW15 5PU
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https://roehampton.academia.edu/MaryLShannon
GWM Reynolds Bicentenary event, July 26th, London: http://remarkablereynolds.wordpress.com/
Postdoctoral member, Executive Committee of the British Association for Victorian Studies http://www.bavsuk.org/index.htm
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