Academic Sessions 2000

Academic Sessions: Edinburgh 2000

  1. Depicted Bodies and Present Souls?
  2. Scotching myths: seeking the soul of Scottish design
  3. Exploring Objects - Making Myths
  4. The Body and Soul of Nation?: making cultural identities 1707-present
  5. Embodying the Nation: ethnic landscapes, myths and mother-figures
  6. The Erotic Eye
  7. Monsters
  8. Clothing/Enclosing/Disclosing the Body c.1200-1550
  9. Body and Soul in the Middle Ages: Death and Burial, Commemoration and Display, c. 1200-1500
  10. A Perfect Emblem: The Right Proportion of 'Body and Soul'
  11. Sacred and Profane in Titian
  12. The Spirit of Spain: exploration of myth and strategies of interpretation 1600-1900
  13. Training the Body and Soothing the Soul: The Search for Nature in the 19th Century
  14. Complex Myths - The Representation of the Body 1850-1939
  15. Building the Body Beautiful
  16. The Death of the Soul: Art in the Age of Francis Bacon
  17. Presence, Absence and their Stand-ins: Twentieth century Art and Photography
  18. Body and Soul in Contemporary British Art
  19. Body and Soul in Islamic Art
  20. The Spirit of the City in the Twentieth Century
  21. The Body Politic: Sculpted Images of the ruler from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period
  22. Skin: skin as surface. skin as matter. skin as material. skin as metaphor. skin as border. skin as contour. skin as mask
  23. The Heart of the Matter

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