Representing the Ring-Net in Word and Image
This article sets out to reveal the way that word and image are combined in wholly inventive ways in the work of artist, Will Maclean and poet/historian, Angus Martin. The initial exhibition by Maclean The Ring-Net in 1978, and the publication of Martin’s book The Ring-Net Fishermen in 1981, were th...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_7695 https://doi.org/10.4000/11qj7 urn:doi:10.4000/11qj7 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/7695 2024-05-28T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/11qj7 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Representing the Ring-Net in Word and Image Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Blair, Lindsay culture populaire documentaire Ring-Net Fishermen tradition orale Fredric Jameson hareng Juhani Pallasmaa John Berger phénoménologie. documentary Ring-Net Fishermen oral history Fredric Jameson the folk voice herring Juhani Pallasmaa John Berger phenomenological. This article sets out to reveal the way that word and image are combined in wholly inventive ways in the work of artist, Will Maclean and poet/historian, Angus Martin. The initial exhibition by Maclean The Ring-Net in 1978, and the publication of Martin’s book The Ring-Net Fishermen in 1981, were their early representations of the world of herring fishing. Their word-image collaborations brought a sensory experience to a new audience: an experience akin, in fact, to the multi-dimensional reality of the ring-net fishermen themselves. The correspondence between the two men during their research period revealed their determination to give absolute priority to the oral testimony of the fishermen above that of any commentators (professional or otherwise) on the industry. The correspondence also signalled the need for the use of both word and image to communicate and transfer information with real accuracy. This article focuses not only on the original Ring-Net research but also on a more recent collaboration where Martin’s poems are set alongside Maclean’s ink drawings in the publication One Time in a Tale of Herring (2010). There are a number of areas of overlap between Maclean’s drawings and the hand-written selection of Martin’s fishing poems. First there is the ‘thingly’ element: the attention above all to nouns and verbs in the poems and the unadorned nature of the drawings; second the phenomenological: the priority given to the sensuous aspects of the fisherman’s experience in the poems and the link to the gestural expressionism of the drawings. Most arresting of all, though, is the way that the image seeks the word and the word seeks the image. Cet article se penche sur la collaboration entre l’artiste Will Maclean à l’occasion de son exposition The Ring Net (1978) et le poète et historien Angus Martin, auteur de The Ring Net Fishermen (1981). Leur détermination conjointe à traduire les pratiques des pêcheurs de hareng écossais est approchée depuis leur correspondance et collectage de témoignages, puis depuis l’analyse des dispositifs verbo-visuels par lesquels Maclean et Martin ont voulu transposer l’expérience première des hommes de mer. L’article s’intéresse également à la publication du recueil de poèmes manuscrits One Time in a Tale of Herring (2010) illustré par Maclean. Lindsay Blair y déploie une approche formelle et phénoménologique visant à explorer les moyens par lesquels poète et artiste ont voulu donner la priorité à l’expérience sensorielle des pêcheurs, notamment dans leur travail sur l’expression du geste en mots et en images. |
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culture populaire documentaire Ring-Net Fishermen tradition orale Fredric Jameson hareng Juhani Pallasmaa John Berger phénoménologie. documentary Ring-Net Fishermen oral history Fredric Jameson the folk voice herring Juhani Pallasmaa John Berger phenomenological. |
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culture populaire documentaire Ring-Net Fishermen tradition orale Fredric Jameson hareng Juhani Pallasmaa John Berger phénoménologie. documentary Ring-Net Fishermen oral history Fredric Jameson the folk voice herring Juhani Pallasmaa John Berger phenomenological. Blair, Lindsay Representing the Ring-Net in Word and Image |
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This article sets out to reveal the way that word and image are combined in wholly inventive ways in the work of artist, Will Maclean and poet/historian, Angus Martin. The initial exhibition by Maclean The Ring-Net in 1978, and the publication of Martin’s book The Ring-Net Fishermen in 1981, were their early representations of the world of herring fishing. Their word-image collaborations brought a sensory experience to a new audience: an experience akin, in fact, to the multi-dimensional reality of the ring-net fishermen themselves. The correspondence between the two men during their research period revealed their determination to give absolute priority to the oral testimony of the fishermen above that of any commentators (professional or otherwise) on the industry. The correspondence also signalled the need for the use of both word and image to communicate and transfer information with real accuracy. This article focuses not only on the original Ring-Net research but also on a more recent collaboration where Martin’s poems are set alongside Maclean’s ink drawings in the publication One Time in a Tale of Herring (2010). There are a number of areas of overlap between Maclean’s drawings and the hand-written selection of Martin’s fishing poems. First there is the ‘thingly’ element: the attention above all to nouns and verbs in the poems and the unadorned nature of the drawings; second the phenomenological: the priority given to the sensuous aspects of the fisherman’s experience in the poems and the link to the gestural expressionism of the drawings. Most arresting of all, though, is the way that the image seeks the word and the word seeks the image. |
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