MEN^RS BODIES
Thursday 29 March ^V Saturday 31 March 2001
The University of Nottingham
A conference on the representation of the male body in art, photography,
advertising, film, television, pop videos and other visual forms.
Organisers: Judith Still, Michael Worton, Keith Fairless
This conference accompanies an exhibition of images of men produced by
male photographers in the last two decades of the 20th Century held at
the Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 3 March - 22 April 2001.
In recent years, the male body, naked and clothed, has been made publicly
- and provocatively - visible in and through photography. This particular
foregrounding of masculine physicality has been said to mark a radical
shift in attitudes towards masculinity and and to contribute to the
establishing of new multiple male identities. At the end of the twentieth
century, there was a growing sense that masculinity was changing - and
that it had become a rather confused category. While some continue to
regard this uncertainty as a creative move, other are alarmed by it, and
there is even talk of a crisis of masculinity.
The exhibition focuses on men^Rs photographic representations of the male
body in the last twenty years (including work from Britain, Europe, Japan
and North America). The conference will offer a wider and challenging
historical framework, expanding the issue to include women^Rs
representations of the male body, and other media as well as other time
periods. In this way, questions will be asked about exactly how men^Rs
bodies have been both represented and seen in different periods and
cultural contexts - and whether the recent shift has been as radical as
has been claimed or feared.
Offers of papers (with title and 300 word abstract) to be submitted by 1
November 2000.
Submissions and requests for further information to be sent to:
Keith Fairless
Department of French
University of Nottingham
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