The Modernist Muse Programme Announced
Westminster English Colloquium #15
“No Hawkers: No Models”: The Vicissitudes of the Modernist Muse
Saturday 19th June 2010, The Pavilion, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W
10.00 Coffee
10.15 Introduction
10.30 – 11.30 Becky Bowler (Sheffield), ‘The strange poses of an untrained dancer’: performance and visual identity in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage
11.30 -12.30 Hana Leaper (Liverpool), ‘Caught and tangled in a woman’s body?’: The dualities of the artist’s body in self-portraits by Vanessa Bell, Gwen John and Laura Knight
12.30 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 Emma West (Independent Scholar), This is My Life: Kay Boyle and Modernist Women’s Autobiographics
3.00 – 4.00 Lucy Howarth (Plymouth), ‘Dress address name’: Fashioning the Modernist Self
4.15 – 5.15 Jane Goldman (Glasgow), Laughing Torso: Muse, Model, Creatrix (The Vicissitudes of Nina Hamnett, Modernist Bohemian, Artist and Writer)
5.15 – 5.30 Roundtable discussion
See the Call for Papers here.
Tagged as Modernism, the avant-garde
The Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture
University of Westminster Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW. United Kingdom.
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