This Podcast was recorded at the University of Edinburgh on 14 July 2017. It is introduced by Professor Andrew Patrizio and features an interview with Dr. Drew Milne.
Drew Milne is the Judith E Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. As well as editing two anthologies, Marxist Literary Theory, and Modern Critical Thought, he has published numerous essays on modern literature and critical theory. His collected poems is forthcoming from Carcanet.
This Podcast was recorded at Little Sparta on 15 July 2017. It is introduced by Professor Andrew Patrizio and features an interview with Susan Stewart.
A poet, critic, and translator, Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Princeton University. Stewart’s most recent books of criticism include The Poet’s Freedom: A Notebook on Making; Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics, a collection of her writings on contemporary art; Crimes of Writing; On Longing; and Nonsense. Her most recent books of poetry are Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017, Graywolf Press); Red Rover, Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, and The Forest. Her translations include Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini. Stewart often collaborates with artists and composers. Her song cycle, “Songs for Adam,” commissioned by the Chicago Symphony with music by the composer James Primosch, had its world premiere with baritone Brian Mulligan and the CSO, Sir Andrew Davis conducting, in October 2009. She also has worked with the Italian painter Sandro Chia, the Network for New Music, and, most often, the artist Ann Hamilton.
This Podcast was recorded at Little Sparta on 15 July 2017. It is introduced by Professor Andrew Patrizio and features an interview with Nancy Perloff.
Dr. Nancy Perloff is Curator, Modern & Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute (GRI). Trained as a musicologist and as an art historian, she pursues scholarship on the Russian avant-garde, European modernism, and the relationship between music and the visual arts. Her exhibitions at the GRI include Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky (1998–99); Sea Tails: A Video Collaboration (2004); Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917 (2008–9); and she led the curatorial team for World War I: War of Images, Images of War (2014). Ian Hamilton Finlay: Little Fields, Long Horizons speaker biographies 5 Perloff is the author of Art and the Everyday: Popular Entertainment and the Circle of Erik Satie (Oxford, 1991) and coeditor, with Brian M. Reed, of Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow (Getty, 2003). She has written and lectured widely on avant-garde composers such as John Cage and David Tudor. Her new book, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, was published by Getty Publications in January 2017. Her exhibition, Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space, is on view at the GRI from March 28 – July 30, 2017.
This Podcast was recorded at Little Sparta on 15 July 2017. It is introduced by Professor Andrew Patrizio and features an interview with Yves Abrioux.
Yves Abrioux is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis. His research focuses on literature and art in relation to philosophy, science and technology. He has published extensively on Ian Hamilton Finlay both in academic journals and in exhibition catalogues and is the author of Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer (2nd edition, Reaktion Books & MIT Press, 1992). In autumn 2016, he was distinguished visiting professor at the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
This Podcast was recorded at Little Sparta on 15 July 2017. It is introduced by Professor Andrew Patrizio and features an interview with Professor Stephen Bann.
Professor Bann is Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol, a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and past President of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (2000-2004). Among his books are Experimental Painting (1970), The Tradition of Constructivism (ed. 1974), The Clothing of Clio (1984), Paul Delaroche (1997), Parallel Lines (2001), Jannis Kounellis (2003), Ways around Modernism (2007) and Distinguished Images (2013). He has also published extensively on contemporary art in journals, catalogues and essay collections. He was guest curator of exhibitions at the National Gallery, London (2010) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon (2014). His collection of works by Ian Hamilton Finlay was shown at the Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge, in 2014/15. In 2014 he also edited Midway, a volume of the letters that he received from Finlay between 1964 and 1969. The sequel Stonypath Days, covering both sides of the correspondence from 1970 to early 1972, appeared in 2016.