MA Faculty Research Seminar

22/09/2006

MA Faculty Research Seminar

The Masters degree in Art History at Richmond, now in its eighth year, has a team of Professors who, as leading scholars in their field, are dedicated to research-led teaching. On Friday 15th September 2006, Dr Robert J Wallis, Associate 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 Word and Image: The Reception of Charlotte Salomon’s ‘Life or Theatre?’. Dr Schultz’s current research engages with word and image in the Nazi period, focussing on the art of Salomon, as well as Arnold Daghani and Felix Nussbaum. Warren Carter then spoke on Structure & Agency in New Deal Art, dealing with the politics of post-war art funding in the US, as visually expressed in public murals. After lunch, Dr Wallis’ paper – Shimmering Steel / Standing Stones: Reflections on the Intervention of ‘Turning the World Inside Out’ at the Rollright Stones – examined the interface between art and archaeology, and the way in which the one may (or may not) contribute to the other. The final paper, by Dr Kersten Glandien, introduced The Aesthetics of (Sound)Installation. Unfortunately Dr John Bonehill was unable to give his talk entitled Hot Air and Hot Iron: Rereading Joseph Wright of Derby, but as Dr Wallis noted in closing, all gathered looked forward to this paper at the future Faculty Research Seminar Series to be scheduled this Fall. The group continued their discussion into the evening at The Builder’s Arms.

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