Welcome to ‘Viewing and writing landscape’

Luigi Ghirri, ‘Valli grandi veronesi, 1985’, Copyright Eredi di Luigi Ghirri

Welcome to ‘Viewing and writing Italian landscape. Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature’. This blog is linked to a new interdisciplinary research network that brings together scholars, artists/photographers and writers in order to discuss Luigi Ghirri’s work and legacy, and, more broadly, the intersection among contemporary photography/visual culture, literature and the investigation of space, place and landscape within Italy and beyond. The project seeks to offer new opportunities for dialogue among scholars, students and practitioners working in different fields and from different theoretical approaches on a wide range of questions relating to the above topics, with a pivotal focus on the work of Luigi Ghirri. The aims of this blog are to raise interest and intellectual debate about these topics, to foster dialogue among artists, writers, scholars and the public, and to establish new links between Italian and British/Irish/Anglophone artistic/literary practice and cultural/theoretical debates.

The project is supported by a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant.

The project is co-ordinated by Marina Spunta (Senior Lecturer in Italian, School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester); m.spunta@le.ac.uk and Jacopo Benci (Senior Research Fellow in Modern Studies and Contemporary Visual Culture, The British School at Rome); jacobenci@gmail.com.

The project assistant is Oliver Brett (School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester); ob49@le.ac.uk.

Please follow the blog and contribute to it with your replies and questions.

Visit the project website: http://www.le.ac.uk/ghirri to find out more details about the project and its events, and to find out how to get involved.

Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any suggestions or queries.

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Benvenuti al blog del progetto ‘Viewing and writing Italian landscape. Luigi Ghirri and his legacy in photography and literature’. Questo progetto di ricerca interdisciplinare riunisce studiosi, artisti/fotografi e scrittori per discutere l’opera e il lascito culturale di Luigi Ghirri, e più in generale le intersezioni tra la fotografia contemporanea, la letteratura/narrativa e l’investigazione dello spazio, del luogo e del paesaggio, in Italia e all’estero. Il network offre nuove opportunità di dialogo fra studiosi, studenti, artisti e operatori culturali che lavorano in campi diversi e partendo da differenti approcci teorici, attorno a una vasta gamma di questioni relative ai temi sopracitati, e all’opera di Luigi Ghirri. Gli scopi del blog sono: accrescere l’interesse e il dibattito su questi temi, incoraggiare il dialogo tra artisti, scrittori, studiosi e il pubblico, stabilire nuovi legami tra la pratica artistica/narrativa e il dibattito teorico/culturale in Italia, nelle Isole Britanniche/paesi anglofoni, ed oltre.

Il progetto è finanziato da: The British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grants.

Il progetto è coordinato da Marina Spunta (Senior Lecturer in Italian, School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester); m.spunta@le.ac.uk e Jacopo Benci (Senior Research Fellow in Modern Studies and Contemporary Visual Culture, The British School at Rome); jacobenci@gmail.com.

L’assistente del progetto è Oliver Brett (School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester) ob49@le.ac.uk.

Continua a seguirci e contribuisci al blog con commenti e domande.

Visita il nostro sito web: http://www.le.ac.uk/ghirri dove troverai ulteriori informazioni su come aderire e contribuire al progetto, e come partecipare ai nostri eventi.

Contattaci pure se hai dei suggerimenti o delle domande.