{"id":260,"date":"2014-09-21T14:41:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=260"},"modified":"2014-09-21T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T15:05:23","slug":"time-traveller-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2014\/09\/21\/time-traveller-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"time travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/edi_uni_eu_0304_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/edi_uni_eu_0304_large-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"(c) The University of Edinburgh Fine Art Collection; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/edi_uni_eu_0304_large-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/09\/edi_uni_eu_0304_large.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) The University of Edinburgh Fine Art Collection; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.list.co.uk\/event\/430927-steampunk-science\/\">steampunk science public engagement event<\/a>\u00a0 in Edinburgh on Friday* and it is the birthday of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._G._Wells\">HG Wells<\/a> today.\u00a0 It seems appropriate in that context to let you know that I have discovered a time traveller in the University of Edinburgh Fine Art collection.<\/p>\n<p>I am in the enviable position of being able to choose art from the collection to hang on the walls in my office. It&#8217;s a tough gig; choosing between a Blackadder and a Bellany, a Redpath and a Rodger, but I struggled through.\u00a0 It has to be said that much of the fine art collection comprises portraits of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/portrait-of-a-gentleman-in-seventeenth-century-dress-portu94446\">dead white men with excellent facial hair<\/a>, and there&#8217;s not many women artists in there.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite picture in the collection is already exhibited ( quite rightly) in the school of Scottish Studies: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/women-singing-at-a-table-waulking-the-cloth-94160\">Women Singing at a Table (Waulking the Cloth)<\/a> by Keith Henderson is a stunning piece. I was offered\u00a0 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/sean-connery-as-a-life-model-225035\">naked Sean Connery <\/a>from his time as a life model.<\/p>\n<p>The first piece I have chosen however, is this painting by AE Borthwick. It is entitled &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/yourpaintings\/paintings\/a-rocky-landscape-94027\">A Rocky Landscape&#8217;<\/a> and clearly shows a young woman recklessly using her laptop for virtual fieldwork while perched on a rock by a river. The artist died in 1955.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Attendees are invited to dress in &#8216;your finest corsets, spats and gasmasks&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a steampunk science public engagement event\u00a0 in Edinburgh on Friday* and it is the birthday of HG Wells today.\u00a0 It seems appropriate in that context to let you know that I have discovered a time traveller in the University of Edinburgh Fine Art collection. I am in the enviable position of being able &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[36,38,35,37],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","category-eople-place-work","tag-collections","tag-mobile-learning","tag-time-and-space","tag-treasures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}