The Cultural Memory of the Itinerant Illustrator In tracing the evolution of illustrated travel one should perhaps begin with the psychology of perception. Freud complemented his medical studies with history and archaeology, creating a fascinating collection of artefacts and illustrated books, focussing in particular on ancient Egypt. He compared psychoanalysis with archaeology, arguing that in both instances excavation of buried depths proved the best path to understanding of past and therefore present. In 1938 he came to London and completed Moses and Monotheism, arguing that Moses followed the example of Akhenaten, who had rejected polytheism in favour of a single god. Above his psychoanalytical couch Freud hung a coloured engraving of the temple at Abu Simbel. This provides a suitable starting point for an examination of the iconography of travel and the dynamic that occurs between the imagination and direct experience, and the relationship between art, illustration and emergent photography.
EDWARD CHANEY Keynote Speaker Edward Chaney PhD FSA, FRHistS is the Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts at Southampton Solent University and Visiting Professor of Art History at the New College of the Humanities, London. He has a first class honours degree in History of Art at Reading University and an MPhil and PhD from the Warburg Institute, University of London. From 1978-1985 he was a ricercatore at the European University Institute, Florence, an Associate of Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti, and taught at the University of Pisa. From 1985-90 he was the Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He subsequently worked for English Heritage and lectured in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University. He is a Commendatore of the Italian Republic and sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Wyndham Lewis Society, The British Art Journal and The Court Historian. In 2010-12 he received a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Research Trust to work on the Reception of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern England. He is the author and editor of many books and has appeared on Television and on BBC Radio 4 (Woman’s Hour, Science Now, Start the Week and In Our Time).