{"id":174,"date":"2016-01-29T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/?p=174"},"modified":"2018-10-15T21:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T20:13:32","slug":"echoes-in-wax-of-virginia-woolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/2016\/01\/29\/echoes-in-wax-of-virginia-woolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes in Wax of Virginia Woolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wax Virginia - Virginia Woolf Building\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BNXAM9bdMio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Introduction by Max Saunders, Professor of English and Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The idea for Wax Virginia was developed by Prof. Clare Brant, Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, and Ruth Richardson, Visiting Research Fellow of the Centre, who both worked closely with the artist Eleanor Crook, on the design of the installation. The project is characteristic of the creativity and imagination they have brought to the Centre. At the unveiling during the Arts &amp; Humanities Festival people were astounded by the way the sculpture transformed the lobby space. It was just what was needed to realise the presence of Arts &amp; Humanities at 22 Kingsway.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a time-lapse video of the artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleanorcrook.com\/\">Eleanor Crook<\/a>\u00a0producing the work,\u00a0\u00a0then read more about the project\u00a0in a post\u00a0from\u00a0<a title=\"Wax Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/2016\/01\/15\/wax-virginia\/\">Catriona Livingstone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction by Max Saunders, Professor of English and Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) The idea for Wax Virginia was developed by Prof. Clare Brant, Co-Director of the Centre for Life-Writing Research, and Ruth Richardson, Visiting Research Fellow of the Centre, who both worked closely with the artist Eleanor Crook, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[64,65,66,67,51,63,69],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20th-21st-centuries","category-gender","tag-22-kingsway","tag-ahri","tag-arts-and-humanities-festival","tag-eleanor-crook","tag-sculpture","tag-time-lapse-video","tag-virginia-woolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}