MA Faculty Research Seminar and Booklaunch Reception

08/10/2007

MA Faculty Research Seminar and Booklaunch Reception

The Masters degree in Art History at Richmond, now in its tenth year, has a team of Professors who, as leading scholars in their field, are dedicated to research-led teaching.

On Friday 14th September, Dr Robert J Wallis, Director of the MA, co-ordinated the annual MA Faculty Research Seminar showcasing MA Faculty expertise to the new MA cohort as well as to invited faculty and students. The day began with a short introduction by Dr Wallis followed by a paper delivered by Dr Deborah Schultz entitled Art or Document? The Problematic Post-war Reception of Words and Images, which explored the relationship between word and image in artists' books, focussing on the work of Charlotte Salomon.

Dr John Bonehill then spoke on Paul Sandby (1731-1809): Picturing the Nation, a Bicentennary Exhibition. Dr Bonehill is curator of this exhibition at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, the first exhibition to bring together works by Sandby from several different collections, involving loans of works from the British Museum, the Royal Collection and Yale Center for British Art. The exhibition will open in the summer of 2009, the bicentennary of the artist's death and will travel to the National Gallery of Scotland with other premiere venues to be confirmed.

In his paper, Stonehenge and Beyond: Contemporary Pagans and the Prehistoric Past, Dr Robert J. Wallis presented his work on the 'Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights Project', including discussion of how pagans are interpreting the past in novel ways which challenge heritage discourse.

The final paper, by Dr Warren Carter's explored Structure & Agency in New Deal Art, the politics of post-war art funding in the US as visually expressed in public murals.

The event concluded with a wine reception and book launch for Dr Wallis's book (co-authored with Jenny Blain, Sheffield Hallam University): Sacred Sites, Contested Rites/Rights: Pagan Engagements with Archaeological Monuments, recently published by Sussex Academic Press.

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