Photo of the week
Robert Crawford to star at Edinburgh Art Festival.
Tuesday 02 August 2011
The writings of Professor Robert Crawford will appear in an exhibition launched at Edinburgh College of Art this week (4 August 2011).
The St Andrews poet’s work will be shown in Body Bags / Simonides – a hard-hitting exhibition of black and white photography by Norman McBeath.
Simonides was a poet that wrote epitaphs for western soldiers killed in conflicts two and a half thousand years ago.
Professor Crawford has written new versions of these ancient texts in the Scots tongue, and it is these 25 texts that appear alongside McBeath’s timeless images of death, losses, and remembrance.
The exhibition, which runs until 9 September, raises questions about dead or dying languages, as well as what language is fitting for remembering the dead.
Body Bags / Simonides is open from 10am – 5pm every day at Studios C3 and C4, Main Building, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh EH3 9DF. www.eca.ac.uk