Writing, Art and Radicality: in post-war Britain
Friday 26th October 2007 2 – 5pm
Location: Geoffrey Manton Building Room 342
This one-day symposia considers the points at which art and writing intersect in post-war Britain. It will focus on the early post-war period as a point from which a number of writers tried to reflect changes in art practice and overturn 'traditional aesthetics' through the development of a more reflexive, interdisciplinary response which aimed to re-invigorate the post-war British art scene and establish new modes of seeing and experiencing art. The symposia considers the ways in which the writing of art produces both productive and destructive tensions that shape the period and work as an interesting pre-cursor to subsequent writing and art practices.
Speakers
Jennifer Way (University of North Texas)
John McHale's Writing and the Domestic Front
Ben Cranfield (London Consortium)
'We have begun to cherish disorder': 'Living Arts' and the
mythology of a generation
Steven Gartside (MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Determining Space: Writing Utopia
The event is FREE, please book a place through Steven Gartside, e-mail: s.gartside@mmu.ac.uk or telephone: 0161-247 6224