CALL FOR PAPERS, COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION 98th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Chicago, Illinois, February 10?13, 2010

Session title: Innovation, Artistic Agency, and History: Centering the
Italian Fourteenth Century

Session Chairs: C. Jean Campbell, Emory University; Anne Dunlop, Yale
University

Deadline: May 8, 2009

This session considers problems of innovation, agency, and historiography
with relation to fourteenth-century Italian art. That something changed
ca. 1300 was a commonplace of the Early Renaissance, and has subsequently
shaped how we view the art of the period. The association of the trecento
with the birth of humanism and the tragedy of the Black Death made it an
apt case for Millard Meiss?s assessment of change within a history of art
where the definition of humanity was at stake. More than half a century
later, the power of such narratives has been eroded; the questions of how
to judge innovation and weigh individual agency remain. We invite papers
that propose new criteria for the assessment of change in
ourteenth-century Italian art and reflect on the expectations we bring to
our evaluations and histories.

To submit a paper proposal, please send a short abstract (approximately
250-300 words) and a resume to:

Jean Campbell, Art History Department, Emory University, Carlos Hall, 581
S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322

For additional information, see: http://conference.collegeart.org/2010