IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1503: Medieval Modern: The Use of the Medieval in Modern and Contemporary Arts
Thursday 7 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies (CLAMS), King's College London |
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| Organiser: | Francesca Brooks, Department of English, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Meg Boulton, Independent Scholar |
| Paper 1503-a | Tracing a Creative Network of the Old English Seafarer Poem in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General |
| Paper 1503-b | Multilingual and Multimedia Passion Narratives: David Jones's 'Dream of the Rood' Inscription in The Anathemata (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Printing History |
| Paper 1503-c | Fair Field: A Radical Re-Imagining of Piers Plowman across Theatre, Digital Art, and Site-Specific Performance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Performance Arts - General, Technology |
| Abstract | 'We are in a position now to see that encounters with medieval art mark the whole history of modernism and its aftermath.' - Medieval Modern: Art Out of Time, Alexander Nagel. This session aims to explore some of the moments of collision in which modern and contemporary works, both visual and textual, interact with medieval materials: re-purposing them in the production of something new. From the perspective of researchers and poet-practitioners, the session will look at how these modern and contemporary re-workings might be seen as critical readings of the medieval, and will question how this might change our perception of these materials. |