CFP 22.10.2011

Bringing It Back. Design & Revivals (New York, 13-14 Apr 12)

Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY, 13.–14.04.2012
Eingabeschluss : 30.01.2012

Ethan Robey, New York

Call for Papers
Bringing It Back: Design and Revivals
The Twenty-First Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the Decorative Arts and Design

All design engages with the past, even if only to deny it, but many movements in design and decorative arts history are founded on conscious revivals of the past. Whether Egyptian, Greek, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, or Modernist, revivals can look back just a few decades or millennia. Revivals can be soberly archaeological or promote a historical fantasy. Some revivalist movements are primarily stylistic, while, for others, idealized notions of history are invested with social, political or moral meaning in the present.

This symposium seeks papers, from students in all fields, that look at aspects of particular revivalist movements in the history of the decorative arts and design or at revivalism in general. We are interested in proposals that discuss form and style as well as proposals that examine design’s role as a cultural metaphor and as a mediator of sociopolitical perspectives.

The symposium’s Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote address will be delivered by Thomas Denenberg, Director of Shelburne Museum, and a scholar of the retrospective culture of New England.

To submit a proposal, send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a c.v. to:
Dr. Ethan Robey
Associate Director, MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design
robeyesi.edu

Deadline: January 30, 2012

Sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design offered jointly by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons The New School for Design

Quellennachweis:
CFP: Bringing It Back. Design & Revivals (New York, 13-14 Apr 12). In: ArtHist.net, 22.10.2011. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/2114>.

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