Research output per year
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.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Art History and Theory, University of Essex
6 Sept 1982 → 27 Jun 1990
Award Date: 27 Jun 1990
Master of Arts, Art History and Aesthetics, University of Essex
8 Sept 1980 → 23 Jun 1982
Award Date: 23 Jun 1982
Bachelor of Arts, English, University of Stirling
8 Sept 1975 → 27 Jun 1979
Award Date: 27 Jun 1979
External positions
Organising committee of the 1st international conference on MacDiarmid
21 Jul 2023 → 25 Jul 2023
Reviewer for Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen
9 Nov 2016 → …
Academic adviser for documentary film on Joseph Cornell, The New School,
26 Sept 2014 → …
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Representing the Ring-Net in Word and Image
Blair, L., 6 Jun 2024, Re-Viewing and Re-Imagining Scottish Waters in Word and Image. Cheape, H. (ed.).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Photographs of A. B. Ovenstone and the Reinvention of the Scottish Amateur Tradition
Blair, L., 10 Apr 2023, In: Journal of Victorian Culture. 10Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sentinels of Stone
Blair, L., 4 Jun 2022, Compelled by Memory: The Lewis Land Monuments 1994-2018. Cooper, C. (ed.). Bristol, p. 55 71 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Where Words and Images Collide: Will Maclean’s Intertextual Collaborations
Blair, L. & Blair, D., 30 Mar 2022, Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New. Hédon , M.-O., Manfredi, C. & Hames, S. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 257-282 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Radical Statements in Print: The Artwork of Will Maclean at The Castle Gallery
Blair, L., 6 Jun 2021, In: Art North. 2, 4, p. 11-13 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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‘Mutations from Below’: The Land Raiders of Reef and An Sùileachan (2013) by Will Maclean and Marian Leven
Blair, L., 30 Nov 2020, In: Northern Scotland. 11, 2, p. 139-160 22 p., 3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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) › peer-review
Activities
- 1 Invited talk
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"An Aesthetics of the Sea in The Highlands & Islands of Scotland"
Anna-Wendy Stevenson (Speaker) & Lindsay Blair (Speaker)
Mar 2022Activity: Talk / Presentation / Podcast / Webinar › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Brittany, Brexit and the first international Hugh MacDiarmid Conference
9/07/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research