{"id":2242,"date":"2023-11-13T17:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T17:40:44","slug":"can-images-be-ekphrastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2023\/11\/13\/can-images-be-ekphrastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Images Be Ekphrastic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday December 6th 2-4pm, Arts Lecture Room 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"545\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/11\/a-fashionable-marriage-1-1024x545.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/11\/a-fashionable-marriage-1-1024x545.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/11\/a-fashionable-marriage-1-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/11\/a-fashionable-marriage-1-768x409.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/11\/a-fashionable-marriage-1.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image: Lubaina Himid, <em>A Fashionable Marriage<\/em>, 1987, as restaged for the Turner Prize in 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second seminar of <strong>Ekphrastic Encounters<\/strong> &#8211; the newly established interdisciplinary discussion\/research forum on new forms and approaches to ekphrasis &#8211; will be led by<strong> Sophie Hatchwell, Associate Professor in Art History.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>In the seminar, we will discuss the question \u2018can images be ekphrastic?\u2019 The discussion will take as a starting point Jas Elsner\u2019s proposal that photographic images function ekphrastically within art historical writing. It will expand to consider whether other sorts of visual imagery, including that which references or attempts to represent, literary material, can be considered ekphrastic. We will use as a case study Lubaina Himid\u2019s <em>A Fashionable Marriage &#8211; <\/em>restaged for the Turner Prize in 2017- which is<em> <\/em>based on the fourth image of William Hogarth\u2019s painting and print series <em>Marriage \u00e0 la Mode, <\/em>from 1743.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is some background reading for the seminar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jas Elsner, <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/j.1467-8365.2009.00720.x?saml_referrer\">\u2018Art History as Ekphrasis\u2019<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Art History<\/em>, 33:1 (2010), pp. 10-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joy Kenseth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3050112?saml_data=eyJzYW1sVG9rZW4iOiI5MjNmMDZkMy05YTY0LTRhOWYtYTVlYS03N2FkM2U4OTllNTMiLCJpbnN0aXR1dGlvbklkcyI6WyIxMTI1NzY5Yi0xMDZmLTRjYzYtODY1ZS02ZTQ5M2MyZTNiN2MiXX0\">\u2018Bernini\u2019s Borghese Bronzes: Another View\u2019<\/a>, <em>The Art Bulletin<\/em>&nbsp;63, no. 2 (1981), pp. 191-210.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you would like to join the session online, then use this Zoom link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/85765947877?pwd=L0FlODkzSUp1SW43Q3FnR3hVTUE1QT09\">https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/85765947877?pwd=L0FlODkzSUp1SW43Q3FnR3hVTUE1QT09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday December 6th 2-4pm, Arts Lecture Room 5. 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