Man with a project
May. 12th, 2010 09:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sheenaghpughIf you're into aca-discussion of slash and RPS, have a look at achille_heal's user info here. It's all about historical statues:
"In 1822 at Hyde Park Corner, London, the sheet was tugged off a 32-foot high, naked male figure topped by the distinctive head of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington. The monument dedicated to the great war-hero was the first fully nude male public sculpture in Britain.
It was controversial object. Responses ranged from mirth to widely reported outrage. The latter stirred largely by the fact of the Statue having been commissioned, paid for and gifted to the Nation of England by “the Women of England”.
The history of the funding of this project forms the basis of my rethinking of the monument in the context of Slash Fiction. The statue can be re-imagined as an early example of Slash wherein the character of Wellington is recast as mythical Greek warrior-hero by and for the female gaze. These characters are pre-existing, the iteration of them as homoerotic spectacle in the context of Georgian England new and transgressive."
As you see, he's up for responses in fictional form if anyone's interested.
"In 1822 at Hyde Park Corner, London, the sheet was tugged off a 32-foot high, naked male figure topped by the distinctive head of Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington. The monument dedicated to the great war-hero was the first fully nude male public sculpture in Britain.
It was controversial object. Responses ranged from mirth to widely reported outrage. The latter stirred largely by the fact of the Statue having been commissioned, paid for and gifted to the Nation of England by “the Women of England”.
The history of the funding of this project forms the basis of my rethinking of the monument in the context of Slash Fiction. The statue can be re-imagined as an early example of Slash wherein the character of Wellington is recast as mythical Greek warrior-hero by and for the female gaze. These characters are pre-existing, the iteration of them as homoerotic spectacle in the context of Georgian England new and transgressive."
As you see, he's up for responses in fictional form if anyone's interested.
