Material Interests - Understanding Early Tudor Art: the Invisible Illumination
Thursday 16th January 2025, 5:00pm
Material Interests Lecture Series
Hear from leading artists and other world-changing practitioners across the fine arts and related industries in this flagship speaker series organised by Winchester School of Art's Department of Art and Media Technology and co-sponsored by Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities.
Understanding Early Tudor Art: the Invisible Illumination
Venue: Lecture Theatre B, East Building, Winchester School of Art, Park Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 8DL / Online via Teams
Speaker: Prof Kathleen E. Kennedy, British Academy Global Professor, University of Bristol | Hosted by Prof Louise Siddons
Come, learn to appreciate early Tudor art using Scott McCloud’s classic Understanding Comics, and why late medieval English illumination lies at the foundation of design theory.
When comics theorist Scott McCloud launched Understanding Comics in 1993 he did not know that he was fueling a new field of scholarly inquiry. He was trying to introduce audiences, viewers who might otherwise have dismissed comics as unserious, or who might not looked at comics at all, to “the invisible art” of comics.
Surprisingly, late medieval English illumination suffers from a similar invisibility, and even more surprisingly yet, McCloud’s theories about twentieth-century comics can help us see early Tudor illumination, and understand how it functioned on the page.
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