Lindsay Blair
Person
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.
- Published
Reconfiguring the Historical Ontologies of Northern Communities in the Art of Will Maclean
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- Published
Paradigms of transmission: Aesthetic affinities and intertextualities in the art of Will MacLean
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- Published
Dalriada, the Lordship of the Isles, and the Northern Rim: Decentralizing the Visual Culture of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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