Peter Muir will be speaking on Jacob Epstein’s British Medical Association sculptural series at the conference ‘Re-Writing Objects & Histories of Sculpture,’ The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (11-12 May 12)
CONVERSION, ICONOCLASM AND REVOLUTIONThe discourse surrounding the traumatic events leading to the removal,transport and relocation of sculpture often centres on the acts ofdestruction associated with revolution and iconoclasm. However, thechanges resulting from re-use and conversion, whether spiritual,functional or symbolic, are as important to our understanding of theobjects and locations of sculpture in their surviving states as are therecords and physical traces of loss. This session approach issues raised by changes made to sculpture in situ, objects whose location has remained static whilst their function has been altered, and the disfigurement, dismemberment and disguise of sculpture in the face of radically shifting social and political contexts.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R
0RN, May 11 - 12, 2012
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2011/autumn/ThreeDimensions.shtml
CONVERSION, ICONOCLASM AND REVOLUTIONThe discourse surrounding the traumatic events leading to the removal,transport and relocation of sculpture often centres on the acts ofdestruction associated with revolution and iconoclasm. However, thechanges resulting from re-use and conversion, whether spiritual,functional or symbolic, are as important to our understanding of theobjects and locations of sculpture in their surviving states as are therecords and physical traces of loss. This session approach issues raised by changes made to sculpture in situ, objects whose location has remained static whilst their function has been altered, and the disfigurement, dismemberment and disguise of sculpture in the face of radically shifting social and political contexts.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R
0RN, May 11 - 12, 2012
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2011/autumn/ThreeDimensions.shtml
Photographs by Peter Muir
