PICTURING LANGUAGE: THE ART BOOK TRADITION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE

A one-day colloquium to be held on Friday, 5th June, 2009, 10 a.m. –
5.30 p.m. at The University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Venue: Symposium Room, Kent Business School, Canterbury

To register for the event please contact Kathryn Brown:
k.j.brownkent.ac.uk

Programme

10.00 – 11.00 Peter Read (University of Kent): Dufy Draws
Apollinaire: From Le Bestiaire to Le Poète assassiné

11.00 – 12.00 Kathryn Brown (University of Kent): Enacting Beauty:
Baudelaire, Matisse and Les Fleurs du mal

12.00 – 1.00 Lunch

1.00 – 2.00 Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths, University of London):
Beckett, Johns and the Livre d’artiste

2.00 – 3.00 Emma Wagstaff (University of Birmingham): ‘Time
Images’ in André du Bouchet’s Texts on Giacometti

3.30 – 4.30 Susan Harrow (University of Bristol): Adaptation,
approximation, adéquation in the ateliers of Francis Ponge

4.30 – 5.30 Anna Katharina Schaffner (University of Kent):
Between Word and Image: On Space, Shapes and Gaps in Concrete Poetry

Venue

The colloquium will take place in the Symposium Room at the Kent
Business School, University of Kent (Canterbury campus),
Canterbury,CT2 7PE. Tel.: (+44)1227 827726

Directions: http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/standard.php?page_id=11

Registration

Registration GBP 10 (GBP 5 students and unwaged).

Registration includes refreshments.