CFP 26.05.2011

Christianity and Latin American Art (Los Angeles, 21 Feb 2012)

Los Angeles, California, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 21.02.2012–15.09.2011

Bernier, Ronald

CALL FOR PAPERS
Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art

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Christianity and Latin American Art: Apprehension, Appropriation,
Assimilation
A Symposium
To be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles,
California
Tuesday February 21, 2012

The Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA)
invites paper proposals for presentation at ASCHA¹s February 2012 symposium,
³Christianity and Latin American Art: Apprehension, Appropriation,
Assimilation.² We invite papers that explore religious themes, narratives,
iconography, or sensibilities in Latin American visual culture, in a variety
of media, of any period or region of Latin America, of colonial or
postcolonial history. We seek papers that address a range of ways artists
and producers of visual art have drawn on the rich cultural and spiritual
traditions of the Christian heritage in Latin American identity to reflect
the widely varied attitudes and applications that obtain.
This project is organized as a pre-conference symposium to the 2012 College
Art Association annual meeting in Los Angeles, which will feature a number
of sessions relevant to this area of scholarly study. The symposium will be
held at the conference center of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, in
the heart of downtown Los Angeles, a vibrant artistic and architectural
destination in and of itself.
We seek 20-minute papers consisting of new and publishable scholarship,
focusing on specific examples of visual culture that explore the Latin
American experience that engage critically or are in dialogue with Christian
subjects, symbols and contexts, and that consider the methodological
challenges these works of art, and their artists, pose in the history of
art. Papers that address the interconnectivity of faith, race, ethnicity,
history and memory are especially encouraged.
It is hoped that symposium participants will contribute to the development
of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art. ASCHA
is dedicated to the facilitation and promotion of new and rigorous
scholarship that examines the historical and contemporary relationship
between Christianity and the visual arts. ASCHA is international,
non-partisan, and ecumenical in its reach; we invite the participation of
scholars of all or no personal faith persuasions. ASCHA encourages the
critical study of Christianity and the visual arts as that relationship is
diversely manifested in all historical periods and world cultures.
For more information about ASCHA, visit our website at
http://christianityhistoryart.org.
Proposals of no more than two pages double-spaced should be submitted, along
with cover letter and CV to both Prof. Rachel Smith at rcsmithtaylor.edu,
and Prof. Ronald R. Bernier at bernierr1wit.edu. Previously presented or
published papers, as well as papers already committed to publication, will
be considered but should be specifically indicated as such. Deadline for
submission is September 15, 2011. Final decisions will be made by November
1, 2011. Acceptance in the symposium implies commitment to attend.


Rachel Smith and Ronald R. Bernier, symposium co-chairs

Quellennachweis:
CFP: Christianity and Latin American Art (Los Angeles, 21 Feb 2012). In: ArtHist.net, 26.05.2011. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/1445>.

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