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SUMMARY:Epiphanies in Glass - Carol Mavor (University of Manchester)
DTSTART:20141105T170000Z
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CONTACT:Anna Blair
DESCRIPTION:Animals are our first metaphor (John Berger).\n\nGlass is\, pe
 rhaps\, our first epiphany.  \n\nGlass is the magical transformation of sa
 nd into glass. \n\nEtymologically\, "epiphany" comes from the Greek meanin
 g "to show." We associate glass with showing\, including eyeglasses\, micr
 oscopes\, telescopes\, magic lanterns\, store windows\, curiosity\, crysta
 l balls\, display cases\, even the barometer which shows us the weather. E
 piphanies manifest when an individual "has a vision."\n\n"Glass is dead ma
 tter transformed by human labor and by breath" (Isabelle Armstrong).\n\nTh
 is lecture will blow breath into the glass of five transparent and fragile
  worlds: the childhood imagination of Walter Benjamin\; the manifestation 
 of Cinderella's glass shoe out of fur\; the barometers and magnifying glas
 ses of Marcel Proust\; Werner Herzog's 1976 film Hearts of Glass\; and Jac
 ques Lacan's "The Looking-glass Phase." In all five\, glass is epiphanous.
LOCATION:The History of Art Graduate Centre - 4a Trumpington Street
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