Call for Papers:

College Art Association Annual Conference 2010 Chicago
February 10-Saturday, February 13, 2010

Session: Modernism and the Fashionable, 1860-1960

Chair: Dr. Änne Söll, Institut für Künste und Medien, Universität
Potsdam

mail to: Dr. Änne Söll, Institut für Künste und Medien, Universität
Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany; aenne.soellweb.de.

[NOTE: email submissions are acceptable]

Please follow the CAA guidelines for submission of proposals
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2010CallforParticipation.pdf

Deadline: May 8, 2009

This panel explores the symbiotic relations between art and the fashion
system in the age of modernism, roughly from 1860 to 1960. It is
intended to challenge some of modernism's most ideologically charged
aesthetic propositions over its "autonomy"-its putative drive towards
atemporality, universality, masculinity, and concommitant refusal of any
quality we recognize as fashionable, ephemeral, frivolous and feminine.
Papers are sought that explore the term "fashionable" in two related yet
distinct senses: figuratively, as an expression of the temporal
dimensions of taste, as well as concretely, as the intersection between
the production of art and the markets of fashion. Topics may range
widely from high art influenced by fashion imagery; the artistic
aspirations of fashion illustration; and the temporality of art and
fashion, for instance the contradiction between linear narratives of
artistic progress and fashion's cyclical eternal returns. There are no
restrictions in terms of geography, medium or discipline.