Annual Conference 2000
Body & Soul
Exploring objects - making myths
6 - 9 April 2000
Department of Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art.
The conference theme is an imaginative prompt to debate about the physical and the ideal: its subtitle respects the object as site of craft, power and fantasy. Academic sessions will explore this theme across a range of periods, locations and methodologies, from medieval Islamic to contemporary British art.
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, and organised in partnership with the National Galleries and National Museums of Scotland, Body and Soul will offer delegates an opportunity to explore Edinburgh and its artistic and cultural resources - including the British Art Show which will open in the City during the conference - at this unique time in its history. Receptions in the National Gallery on the Mound and the new Museum of Scotland, the Art Book Fair, visits to the wealth of sites the City offers - both modern and ancient - and a conference dinner in the Neo-Classical splendour of the University's Playfair Library will complement the academic content of the conference.
The deadline for proposals to reach session convenors (abstracts should be no more than 300 words maximum) was Monday 22 November 1999 and has now passed.
List of Sessions
Academic Convener
Professor Richard Thomson
Department of Fine Art
The University of Edinburgh
19 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Tel: 0131 650 4117
Department of Fine Art, The University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art.
The conference theme is an imaginative prompt to debate about the physical and the ideal: its subtitle respects the object as site of craft, power and fantasy. Academic sessions will explore this theme across a range of periods, locations and methodologies, from medieval Islamic to contemporary British art.
Hosted by the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art, and organised in partnership with the National Galleries and National Museums of Scotland, Body and Soul will offer delegates an opportunity to explore Edinburgh and its artistic and cultural resources - including the British Art Show which will open in the City during the conference - at this unique time in its history. Receptions in the National Gallery on the Mound and the new Museum of Scotland, the Art Book Fair, visits to the wealth of sites the City offers - both modern and ancient - and a conference dinner in the Neo-Classical splendour of the University's Playfair Library will complement the academic content of the conference.
The deadline for proposals to reach session convenors (abstracts should be no more than 300 words maximum) was Monday 22 November 1999 and has now passed.
List of Sessions
Academic Convener
Professor Richard Thomson
Department of Fine Art
The University of Edinburgh
19 George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Tel: 0131 650 4117