Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets
- Submitting institution
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University of Sunderland
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1277
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Book Chapter, artist, curator and editor of publication
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2014
- URL
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http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/12492/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Jeff Cowton, Curator at The Wordsworth Trust, has described handwriting as a visual form which can ‘mimic the texture of thought’, revealing valuable clues as to the state of mind of the creator. Cowton challenged Collier to propose new ways of demonstrating what he called this ‘texture of thought’ evident in the manuscripts of Dorothy and William Wordsworth.
The resulting exhibition (and publication) at Dove Cottage in 2016 (curated by Collier), showed original manuscripts by William/Dorothy Wordsworth and facsimile copies of Bashō’s alongside new commissioned work by contemporary UK and Japanese artists who responded to the manuscripts in ways that were fresh, creative and radical.
Cowton said, ‘this exhibition brings us closer to the words of these three great writers: we come to them from new directions, stimulated by the work of living artists who have each worked closely with the words and manuscripts from the past. It is an exhibition that rewards close attention and time.’
Following interest in this research from Japanese academics and working with Miki Imai (Director, Kakimori Bunko), and Prof Saeko Yoshikawa (Kobe University), Collier developed this project in Japan in 2016. Kakimori Bunko holds one of the world's three major collections of haiku poetry and painting, and supported by the Wordsworth Trust the resulting exhibition (and publication) at Kakimori Bunko in Itami (curated by Collier) was the first time in a generation that original William Wordsworth manuscripts had been seen in Japan; the first time ever that Dorothy Wordsworth manuscripts had been seen in Japan and the first time original manuscripts of the Wordsworths and Bashō had been shown alongside each other.
For this exhibition, newly commissioned (and different) artwork by twelve contemporary British and thirteen Japanese artists (painters, poets, musicians, sculptors and calligraphers) was shown together with original manuscripts of Bashō and Wordsworth.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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