CALL FOR PAPERS:
CAA 2007 Annual Meeting,
New York City, 14-17 February 2007

The Ties That Bind? Homosocial Collaboration in American Art

*Deadline for submission is May 5, 2006, but submissions will be accepted
until May 15, electronically and by mail (see addresses below).

Artistic collaboration can mean many things: work produced among
colleagues, best friends, competitors, coconspirators, or lovers. In
response to artistic collaborations between men and women, art historians
have mapped territories of power, desire, tension, and inspiration. Yet
when those collaborations take place between artists of the same sex, the
scholarly conversation has seemed stunted, avoiding the more subjective
aspects of the relationship. This panel seeks to examine the idea of
homosocial artistic collaboration beyond these limitations and consider
which individual artists, groups of artists, and schools might be
understood differently through the lens of intimate friendship. Questions
to consider might include: Can homosocial relationships between artists
exist as friendships, or do they necessarily represent displaced
eroticism? Have collaborations between women in particular been
undermined, ignored, or misrepresented? Does the way in which we speak of
homosocial relationships shift when considering age and race?

Send proposals to:

Alexis L. Boylan,University of Tennessee, School of Art 1715 Volunteer
Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37996-2410 OR aboylanutk.edu

Send inquiries to: aboylanutk.edu or leeewabash.edu

For details on the submission process, see:
http://www.collegart.org/pdf/2007-call-papers.pdf

Alexis Boylan
Elizabeth Lee

Elizabeth Lee
Assistant Professor of Art
Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352
765.361.6241