John Harvey is a practitioner and historian of sound art and visual art. He is Professor at the School of Art, Aberystwyth University. His research field is the visual and sonic culture of religion. In art history, his studies engage the visual imagery of popular piety, supernaturalist traditions, and working-class culture. He has written a number of books including The Bible as Visual Culture; Photography & Spirit; The Appearance of Evil: Apparitions of Spirits in Wales; Image of the Invisible: The Visualization of Religion in the Welsh Nonconformist Tradition; and The Art of Piety: The Visual Culture of Welsh Nonconformity. In art practice, his work explores visual, textual, and aural sources of Protestant Christianity, theological and cultural ideas, and systemic processes. The work is discussed in The Aural Bible series of CD releases, and The Pictorial Bible series of exhibitions.
- Introduction
- John Williams
- Such a noise as if all about was going to pieces
- Geographical: Fiery stones
- Geographical: The crucifiction (Skirrid)
- Such a noise as if all the hedges about were tore to pieces
- Incomparable singing
- Geographical: The swallows' tale
- Seen in the air
- So great a noise that the man of the house, on a sudden, thought the house was going away
- Sound expressive of something
- John ab John
- Like children in bright clothing
- Standing by a holly tree
- This sweet bell ringing
- Tafl gerrig o’r afon [Throw stones out of the river]
- What is here
- Geographical: Like waves perfectly immovable
- Details
- Acknowledgement & Credits
- Performances & Workshops
- Presentations
- Publications, Reviews & Airplay
- Availability, Purchases & Sound Clips
- About John Harvey