(CAA 2010 Chicago)

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

Session: “Ananda Coomaraswamy’s Influence on Twentieth-Century Art”

As curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and a passionate discussant
of traditionalist values, Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) is renowned as
the scholar and philosopher who introduced Asian art to a wide American
audience in the early 1900s. Less well known is the wide-ranging
influence he has had on 20th-century modern and contemporary discourses
in art. Artists, composers, and art historians who have been influenced
by Coomaraswamy’s writings on Hindu, Buddhist and European art,
promoting art as inseparable from life, include John Cage, Albert
Gleizes, Morris Graves, Rockwell Kent, Eric Gill, Thomas Merton, Isamu
Noguchi, Mircea Eliade, Dorothy Norman, Alfonso Ossorio, Ad Reinhardt,
Alfred Stieglitz, Mark Tobey, Bill Viola, and many others. This panel
invites papers on Coomaraswamy’s influence on artists’ working methods,
conceptual ideas, and aesthetic approaches as well as the reception of
Coomaraswamy’s literature, exhibitions, and museum installations and his
impact on Asian art as a scholarly field.

Session organizers:
Dr. Lise Kjaer, City College, CUNY, lkjaerccny.cuny.edu
Dr. William Wroth, Independent Scholar, wwrothkiva.net

Please send abstracts by Friday, May 8, 2009 to both organizers at:
lkjaerccny.cuny.edu and wwrothkiva.net, or by mail to:

Lise Kjaer
Art Department
The City College, CUNY
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

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

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