Lecture at the Seventh Annual Word & Image Conference
The Seventh Annual Word & Image Conference will feature a public lecture by the Deputy Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, Frances Carey, on Friday 12th May at 5:30 pm about the many ways the Apocalypse is represented.
While specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century prints, Frances Carey has also published catalogues of several important exhibitions held at the British Museum in recent years, such as 鈥淕erman Printmaking in the Age of D眉rer鈥�, 鈥淐ollecting the Twentieth Century鈥�, 鈥淢odern Scandinavian Prints鈥�, and 鈥淭he Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come鈥�, which incorporates many Medieval and Renaissance images and opened in December, 1999.
Introduced by the Principal of the University, Professor C Duncan Rice, the lecture is entitled 鈥楴on-intimidation by Doom: Rhetoric and Image in the Representation of the Apocalypse.鈥�
The lecture is free and open to the public. It will take place in King鈥檚 College G8, in the Quadrangle of King鈥檚 College, Old Aberdeen. A wine reception will follow the lecture.