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We Need to Talk About Art: Ekphrasis Now
Sat 6 Jul 2024 to Sat 6 Jul 2024
Organised by Oz Hardwick, Leeds Trinity University, and Cassandra Atherton, Deakin University, this one-day symposium taking place in Leeds on Saturday 6th July 2024 is devoted to current thinking on ekphrastic responses to artworks in diverse media.
While James A. W. Heffernan's monograph, Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery (1991), remains one of the most influential works on ekphrasis, his definition of ekphrasis as "the verbal representation of visual representation" is becoming increasingly inadequate. Indeed, recent years have seen something of a return to its eighteenth-century meaning, more generally connoting description of, or commentary upon, any work of art in any medium. The growth in new media has led to new ekphrastic approaches which continue to inform and reframe more traditional practices.
Date: 9:00am-7:00pm, Saturday 6 July 2024.
Location: Village Hotel Leeds North, 186 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds, LS16 5PR
Everyone is welcome.
Full details and to register here
Image credit: © Bob Heman
Additional Information:
Location:
Leeds
Region(s):
Yorkshire
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