CALL FOR PAPERS for SECAC 2011 SESSION:

Histories of Art History and Visual Culture as Narratives

We construct and present our understanding of art history and visual
culture, and our relationship to these intertwined disciplines, through
historiographies. Narrative theory provides a rich resource for
investigating and re-imagining these disciplinary histories. This
session will reflect on how these histories have been constructed in the
past, on the impact they have on our understanding of the present
moment, and on how else they might be constructed. To that end, this
session invites papers that explore historiographies of art history
and/or visual culture via character, voice, structure, and other
narrative elements. Papers might address narratives of, or about,
particular scholars, critics, or groups thereof (e.g., Denis Diderot,
the Vienna School, the Independent Group, Wendy Beckett) and how these
narratives have shaped disciplinary (or non- or anti-disciplinary) roles
for them, or shaped the disciplines themselves-their purposes,
audiences, etc. What motivates the structure(s) of these narratives?
What narrative models have been favored (or sidelined) by whom, and to
what effect? How have specific narrative forms influenced the production
and consumption of scholarship in art history and/or visual culture? Do
different media call forth different sorts of narratives and, if so, how
do these inform disciplinary self-conceptions or self-presentations?

Information about SECAC, abstract guidelines, and abstract submission
procedure available at:
http://www.secollegeart.org/annual-conference.html

Please follow all SECAC guidelines and send proposal form and cv to the
session chair no later than APRIL 20, 2011: