Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research expertise
- Visual culture of Scotland/ Highlands in a post-colonial situation and the potential of a transnational identity. Reinvigorating the language of the discourse - locating Scottish/ Highland art within its evolving futures in order to re-articulate how new technologies, new radical political geographies, new aesthetic forms can re-charge existing narratives.
- American Surrealism, especially the work of Joseph Cornell.
- American Abstract Expressionism with particular emphasis on the work of Jon Schueler in relation to the semiotic analysis of Roland Barthes and the radical theory of Gilles Deleuze.
- Cross-disciplinary Representations: Place as Text in Visual Culture and Literature. Dialogical readings, Codes and Constructed Realities.
- Contemporary Art in Public Places – Art and Health, the therapeutic environment; contemporary collections; socially engaged practice; curating exhibitions in the gallery space. Codes of conduct and approaches that will promote the ideals of sustainable development.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy
6 Sep 1982 → 27 Jun 1990
Award Date: 27 Jun 1990
Master of Arts
8 Sep 1980 → 23 Jun 1982
Award Date: 23 Jun 1982
Bachelor of Arts, University of Stirling
8 Sep 1975 → 27 Jun 1979
Award Date: 27 Jun 1979
External positions
Reviewer for Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
9 Nov 2016 → …Academic adviser for documentary film on Joseph Cornell
26 Sep 2014 → …Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Lindsay Blair is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Research Output
Paradigms of transmission: Aesthetic affinities and intertextualities in the art of Will MacLean
Blair, L., Jan 2018, Anthropology and Beauty: from Aesthetics to Creativity. Bunn, S. (ed.). London: Routledge, p. 306-323 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Reconfiguring the Historical Ontologies of Northern Communities in the Art of Will Maclean
Blair, L., 30 Dec 2018, Relate North: Art & design for education and sustainability. Jokela, T. & Coutts, G. (eds.). Rovaniemi, Vol. 5. p. 10-32 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Dalriada, the Lordship of the Isles, and the Northern Rim: Decentralizing the Visual Culture of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Blair, L., Jul 2017, Narratives Unfolding : National Art Histories in an Unfinished World. Langford, M. (ed.). Canada: McGill-Queen's University Press, p. 167-188 21 p. (McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History Series; no. 22).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
An exploration of place and its representations: an intertextual/dialogical reading of the photographs of A.B. Ovenstone and the novel 'Gillespie' by John MacDougall Hay
Blair, L. & Blair, D., 5 Nov 2016, In : International Review of Scottish Studies. 41, p. 72-106 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Press / Media
How US artist Jon Schueler fell in love with Mallaig
7/05/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Centenary of American artist Jon Schueler to be celebrated throughout 2016
3/01/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research