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Research Seminar: Murdo Macdonald

The visual side of the Celtic Revival from John Francis Campbell to Sorley MacLean

Wednesday 18 September 2024 | 13:00
Seòmar Shomhairle, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
This seminar will also be available to watch online

John Francis Campbell to Sorley MacLean: why those two? John Francis Campbell helps to define the very notion of Celtic art in volume four of Popular Tales of the West Highlands, (Edmonstone and Douglas, 1862), and book has a notable Celtic revival cover. Sorley MacLean’s Dàin do Eimhir (William Maclellan, 1943) is Gaelic modernist poetry accompanied by modernist art by William Crosby. I explore those categories, Celtic Revival, on the one hand, and modernism, on the other. How do they relate to one another? Are they opposed or are they complementary?

Murdo Macdonald is Emeritus Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature.

Caitlin Powell

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