Call for papers

Object - Excavation - Intervention:
Dialogues between Sculpture and Archaeology

A conference at the Henry Moore Institute
Friday 4 + Saturday 5 June 2004

This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together
archaeologists and art historians to discuss the links between sculpture
and archaeology. We invite papers that look at, for example:

- The history of archaeological thought and archaeological discovery in
relation to the history of sculpture
- Archaeology as a metaphor in modernity and psychoanalysis
- Issues of depth/surface and the role of discovery and revelation
- Myths of origins and the ways in which the archaeological dig, the cave
and the quarry have been variously appropriated
- The philosophy of place and the ways in which questions of
site-specificity are significant to both sculpture and archaeology (in
urban, rural and industrial environments)
- How notions of 'archaism' and 'classicism' etc. have been constructed
through archaeology and have been taken up politically by sculptors,
archaeologists and writers at different times.

We are very interested in papers that trace those historical moments when
there seems to have been a 'symbiosis' between sculpture and
archaeological discovery, from c. 1700 to the present. We are also
particularly interested in reading proposals from archaeologists who are
interested in sculpture and in sharing new approaches to archaeology with
sculpture historians. Please send 500 word proposals to Liz Aston,
lizhenry-moore.ac.uk by 6 October 2003.

Henry Moore Institute
74 The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AH
Tel: +44 (0)113 246 7467
Fax: +44 (0)113 246 1481
www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/hmi