And with regards to reading week, I've been doing some reading for my essay coming up. Here's a brief summary of what's being asked of 3rd year H&C students in Term 1:
"You should choose ONE source and write an academic review of it with a word length of 800-1,000 words (this being the equivalent of a short published review).
What is a source? While this is likely to be published and text based, it does not have to be. You may choose an object-based or archival source, for instance. The nature of the source is likely to determine the intellectual approach and will be important in terms of assessment."
So I think I'm going to chose to review a political cartoon, perhaps one by david low on the run up to WWII but we shall see. The book I'm reading, "The Political Cartoon" by Charles Press has showed me a lot of other political cartoonists I hadn't heard of before. I'm also reading a book by Susan Stewart, "On Longing..." It's a good deal tougher to read than my political cartoon book but it throughs up some interesting ideas about collections, souvenirs, the miniature, the gigantic and so on.
I'm doing a lot of reading as of late. For my art practice, I'm reading a couple of interesting books:
The Bog Man and the archaeology of people by Don Brothwell (scientific and forensic investigation into the study of bog bodies)
The Rattlebag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes (a book of poetry).
What else has been happening? Well on a late and side celebratory note, the Painting & Printmaking dept. got back a studio space this year which has been occupied by offices for 25 years. It's a proud day for us painters, and so encouraging to see the school giving its students the space they deserve. Yay!
Over and Out.
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