Word and Image. The Second Modernist Network Cymru Conference

Extended CFP deadline: 24 February 2017

Modernist Network Cymru (MONC) welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers on the relationship between word and image in modernist art, literature and culture. How did modernist artists respond to literary texts? How did writers incorporate visual elements in poetry and prose? How did author and artist collaborations arise? And how did modernist texts, from collages to magazines to scrapbooks, combine word and image in radical new ways?

Over the course of two days, we aim to explore the multitudinous connections between word and image in a range of modernist texts from Wales and beyond. We invite interdisciplinary responses to any aspect of word and image in modernism, but we particularly welcome scholars working on Welsh modernist writers and artists, as well as modernist art and writing in Wales. The full story of the visual arts in Wales is only just beginning to unfold; this conference provides an opportunity to discuss future directions for research into this developing field. What should a Welsh modernist art history be, and what relationship should it have to its sister arts, especially literature?

Although we are a Welsh Network, we have an international outlook. We are interested in Welsh art and literature’s international connections, as well as how place, language and history affected experiments in word and image elsewhere, especially in other ‘small nations’.

To view the full call for papers, please visit https://modernistnetworkcymru.org/2016/11/24/cfp-the-second-modernist-network-cymru-conference-word-and-image/

Enquiries and proposals should be directed to our Chair, Emma West, at modernistnetworkcymrugmail.com.