The Uncanny in Writing the Picture (2010) by John Fuller and David Hurn
From the late 1980s onwards, John Fuller started writing poems intended to illustrate several pictures taken by David Hurn between 1966 and 2009. This collaboration—which is unprecedented in the history of Welsh art—gave rise to the publication of Writing the Picture in 2010. At the confluence of tw...
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Études écossaises
2017
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | From the late 1980s onwards, John Fuller started writing poems intended to illustrate several pictures taken by David Hurn between 1966 and 2009. This collaboration—which is unprecedented in the history of Welsh art—gave rise to the publication of Writing the Picture in 2010. At the confluence of two aesthetics that keep on feeding each other, this collection of duotone images and poems is undeniably imbued with a sense of what Freud calls “the Uncanny”. Indeed, according to Hurn, who also is a photography theoretician, the best pictures produce forms of strangeness that are crucial to their success. And the uncanniness characterizing his art—including the weirdness of ordinary scenes of the Welsh daily life—obviously fascinated Fuller whose perfect mastery of complex forms always testifies to some unfulfilled wish to better grasp the mysteries of the real. |
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