Panel title: The Artist's Artist: What's In a Name?
SECAC
New Orleans, September 24-27, 2008

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, deadline extended to April 27th.

The term "artist's artist" is both overused and under-analyzed; a
compliment of sorts, the label can also be an inglorious one. It
implies that an artist has earned the respect of peers, but remains
relatively underappreciated by a larger audience. An "artist's artist"
often fails to secure critical or economic success; when broader
interest is piqued, it often takes the form of a belated retrospective
or art historical study. What are the factors that might explain this
gap? What are these qualities that other artists or art historians
value when conferring this label? What important insights might a
critical assessment of an artist's artist reveal about the politics of
artistic and scholarly trends, the demands of the art market, the
modern cult of personality, or the inter-dynamics of an artistic sub-
culture? What are the personal ramifications of being identified as an
artist's artist? Or, how does the promotion of such an individual
impact the careers of curators, art historians, collectors or critics?
What are the professional stakes of promoting ("discovering") an
artist's artist? These are just a few of the questions this panel
hopes to address. Individual case studies and analyses of an artist's
artist from different time periods are welcome, as are papers that
address the broader personal, ideological, historical, contextual or
international aspects of the title term.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words and a current CV
via email to Susan Richmond (srichmondgsu.edu) by April 27, 2008.

Info about SECAC and the conference available at www.secollegeart.org.

Susan Richmond
Assistant Professor, Art History
School of Art & Design
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 4107
Atlanta, GA 30302-4107