{"id":174,"date":"2016-03-02T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=174"},"modified":"2016-03-02T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:46:02","slug":"artists-books-and-the-medical-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2016\/03\/02\/artists-books-and-the-medical-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists&#8217; Books and the Medical Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A one-day symposium, co-organised by the University of Kent\u2019s School of English and the University of New England\u2019s Maine Women Writers Collection, will explore connections between artists\u2019 books, health\/illness and medicine. It will also launch <em>Prescriptions<\/em>, an exhibition of book art by Martha A. Hall, on loan from the University of New England, which will run until the 14th of August in the Beaney House of Art &amp; Knowledge, Canterbury. Martha Hall\u2019s books, created from 1998 until her death in 2003, engage with several on-going issues in the field of the medical humanities, including illness narratives, representations of women\u2019s bodies and patient-doctor relationships. These themes find unique expression through the medium\u2019s intimacy, immediacy and complexity that not only challenges the conventional book form but also offers a palpable experience of the patient\u2019s world. <em>Prescriptions<\/em> will include a supporting show of artists\u2019 books by national and international artists responding to themes of art and wellbeing that is curated by Dr Stella Bolaki (University of Kent) and Egidija \u010ciricait\u0117 (artist).<\/p>\n<p>The registration fee for the symposium is\u00a0 \u00a315 and includes coffee\/tea, lunch and a drinks reception. Participants will also have the chance to attend a special preview of the <em>Prescriptions<\/em> exhibition in the Beaney House of Art &amp; Knowledge. View the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/research\/conferences\/artistsbooks.html\">full programme and details of how to book.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A workshop related to the work of Martha A. Hall will also take place at The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge on the following day (<span style=\"font-size: medium\">Friday 22 April 2016, 9 am-5pm).\u00a0Participants will experience the creative, therapeutic and educational potential of artists\u2019 books and learn how to make one in this full-day practical workshop with book artist and educator Andrew Malone. Find out more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/research\/conferences\/artistsbooks.html\">event website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-day symposium, co-organised by the University of Kent\u2019s School of English and the University of New England\u2019s Maine Women Writers Collection, will explore connections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2016\/03\/02\/artists-books-and-the-medical-humanities\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34306,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}