Call for Papers:
College Art Association Conference: 2010 Chicago
February 10- 13, 2010

Art and Violence

This panel examines the relationship between art and violence.
Artists have long commemorated the heroism of war, sacrifice and
martyrdom, disaster and strife, rousing emotional responses in the name of
Church, State, or communal identity. In the modern period, this history of
affirmative violence in art has been accompanied by a history of
critical violence, of ?violent? works that complicate the dialectics of
barbarism and civilization, criminality and normalcy, desire and
restraint.
The presentation and representation of violence serve as
a cultural index, as an indicator of deepseated social values. And as
the context, quality, and assessment of violence have changed, so has
art?s relationship to it. Open to individual case studies and/or
broader cultural analyses, this panel explores ways of thinking about
violent art of the past and the potentialities of violence as a
critical tool in the present.

Session organizers:
Cary Levine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Philip Glahn, Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Please send abstracts by Friday, May 8, 2009 to both organizers at:
clevineunc.edu and phglahntemple.edu, or by mail to:

Cary Levine
110 Hanes Art Center
Chapel Hill, NC 27599

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