After a long series of blockbuster and quasi blockbuster exhibitions beginning with the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “American Paradise” (1987) and ending with the Brooklyn Museum’s “Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape” (2007), now is the perfect time to take a fresh look at the history of the Hudson River School and its offshoots. This session provides an opportunity to assess what has been learned over the past two and a half decades and to explore further the influence of new social formations, new cultural practices, and new technologies of vision on American landscape representation in the period 1800-1900.

The session welcomes papers on every aspect of the school and its history. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the influence of new technologies of vision and representation; relevant cultural practices and discourses; the historiography of the Hudson River School; the scholarly debate over “Luminism.”

Information about SECAC, abstract guidelines, and abstract submission procedure available at: http://www.secollegeart.org/annual-conference.html
Please send a SECAC proposal form and brief cv to me no later than 20 April 2011

Alan Wallach
Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies
The College of William and Mary
axwallwm.edu