Call for Papers for the 2010 College Art Association Conference

Session: Impressionism and Art History: What Comes Next?
Chair: Michelle Foa, Newcomb Art Department, Tulane University

This panel invites scholars to evaluate the recent history and current
state of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist studies, and to explore new
ways of understanding this period in the history of art. While later
nineteenth-century French painting was a primary area of scholarly inquiry
in the 1970s and 1980s and in the new art history of that period, its
place in the discipline has since become less central. We are thus well
positioned to look both backward and forward, to analyze the recent
historiography of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and to develop new
perspectives on this material. What methodologies can help us gain
further insights into this very familiar territory? How might we redefine
the relationship between Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, or revisit
these two terms as art historical categories? What interpretive
frameworks and tools from other disciplines or from the scholarship on
other art historical periods might we employ to reassess French artistic
production of the later nineteenth century?

Please submit an abstract and CV by May 8, 2009 by email to
MFoaTulane.edu or by mail to:

Michelle Foa
Tulane University
Newcomb Art Department
Woldenberg Art Center
New Orleans, LA 70118