CONF 18.07.2016

2 Sessions at CAA 2017 (New York, 15 - 18 Feb 17)

New York, NY, 15.–18.02.2017
Anmeldeschluss: 30.08.2016

H-ArtHist Redaktion

2 Sessions at CAA 2017:

[1] Exhibitions as Transnational Exchange from 1945: Beyond Euro-America

[2] On the Road Revisited: Art and Travel since 1900

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[1]

Exhibitions as Transnational Exchange from 1945: Beyond Euro-America

Chairs: Harriet Atkinson, University of Brighton; Sarah A. Lichtman, Parsons School of Design;
Verity Clarkson, University of Brighton
Email: h.atkinson2brighton.ac.uk<mailto:h.atkinson2brighton.ac.uk>; lichtmasnewschool.edu<mailto:lichtmasnewschool.edu>; vecc1brighton.ac.uk<mailto:vecc1brighton.ac.uk>

The chairs welcome 250-word abstracts on the theme of ‘Exhibitions as Transnational Exchange from 1945: Beyond Euro-America’, which will be the Design History Societ ’s inaugural panel as a CAA affiliate society. <http://www.designhistorysociety.org/> Design History Society

Session Abstract:
This session explores exhibitions as sites of official transnational exchange after 1945. By the end of World War Two, museum exhibitions, industrial and trade fairs, biennials, triennials and world’s fairs increasingly became locations for the display of ‘soft power’, for the exercise of cultural diplomacy between nations.
We welcome twenty-minute papers that extend established geographies, interrogating exhibitions as a focus for transnational exchanges with, or preferably beyond, Euro-America. Papers might consider such exhibitions through an analysis of their design or material qualities; the content and focus of their displays; or the economic, social or political dialogues and discourses within which they were developed and took place. As the Design History Society’s inaugural session as a CAA affiliate society, this panel intends to contribute to design historical research that explores wider networks, interconnections, and exchanges within and beyond design.
Potential Subject Areas:
1) Art History-Decorative Arts/Textiles/ Design History;
2) Art History-General Art History

Full call for participation and submission information:
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2017-call-for-participation.pdf

Dr Verity Clarkson
Lecturer, College of Arts and Humanities (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays)
University of Brighton 10-11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton BN2 1RA
vecc1brighton.ac.uk
@drvclarkson
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/design-art-history/events/diplomacy-by-design

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[2]

On the Road Revisited: Art and Travel since 1900
Chairs: Peter Han-Chih Wang, Temple University; David Smucker, Stony Brook
University
Emails: peterwangtemple.edu; david.smuckergmail.com

Abstracts (250 words) and shortened CVs along with other forms are due
by August 30, 2016.

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Jack
Kerouac’s Beat novel On the Road, and the exhibition The Open Road:
Photography and the American Road Trip
is currently on tour in the United
States. Thinking outward from Kerouac’s novel and the automobile road trip
in America, our contemporary era also plays host to the development of
self-driving cars, to widespread debates about immigration, and to
international politics strongly influenced by oil production and
consumption. In light of these road-related matters, our panel seeks to
historicize and thematize being on the road. We welcome presentations from
scholars, artists, and travelers that investigate the ways that being on
the road becomes a catalyst for art across various mediums, on all
continents, and through other means of transportation than the car.

Travel mobilizes and contextualizes art and visual culture, landscape and
society, time and place, self and other, posing a series of related
questions: How do we experience travel differently through the lens of
race, gender, class and/or national identity? What effects do technologies
of transportation have on those of representation, and vice versa? How do
artists reflect the traveling mind and body in states of (im)mobility and
in-betweenness? Can methodologies from disciplines like mobility studies,
critical theory, or philosophy help us understand travel-related art?

“On the Road Revisited” solicits papers from a wide variety of contributors
that reconsider the phenomenon of the road trip in art, to better
understand the distinct perspectives on the world that travel provides.

CAA membership and registration for the conference are required. More
information about abstracts and submission guidelines can be found in the
CAA's 2017 Call for Participation.
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2017-call-for-participation.pdf

Quellennachweis:
CONF: 2 Sessions at CAA 2017 (New York, 15 - 18 Feb 17). In: ArtHist.net, 18.07.2016. Letzter Zugriff 19.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/13529>.

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