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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
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 → …
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Where Words and Images Collide: Will Maclean’s Intertextual Collaborations
Blair, L. & Blair, D., 30 Mar 2022, Writing and Imaging 21st-century Scotland : 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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‘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
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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: Lapland University Press, Vol. 5. p. 10-32 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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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) › peer-review
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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 › peer-review
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