AAH Annual Conference
15-17 April 2010, University of Glasgow

call for papers: session on Intervisuality in Medieval Art

convenor: Debra Higgs Strickland, University of Glasgow

DEADLINE: 10 November 2009

Of current interest in the critical analysis of medieval art,
intervisuality or interpictoriality has been conceived as the visual
counterpart to intertextuality. Simply defined as pictorial references to
other pictures, studies by Michael Camille, Madeline Caviness, Cynthia
Hahn, and Mitchell Merback, among others, have shown that the process or
concept itself is anything but simple, that it can generate multiple and
often complex meanings that serve particular contemporary cultural
agendas. We can speak of intervisuality, among other ways, in relation to
the redeployment of earlier iconographical formulae in new contexts, to
pictorial references across different artistic media, to visual
correspondences across visual genres (such as from dramatic performance to
static works of art, or vice versa). This session invites papers that
address any aspect of intervisuality with a focus on one or more works of
medieval art, one or more iconographical themes, or that compare and/or
contrast the processes of intervisuality to those of intertextuality. The
papers may incidentally address one or more of the following questions: Is
intervisuality a concept or a process? Is it the creation of medieval
artists or audiences? How does intervisuality generate meaning? What types
of cultural work did intervisuality perform during the Middle Ages?

250-word abstracts for 30-minute papers should be submitted via email to
Debra Strickland (D.Stricklandarts.gla.ac.uk).

DEADLINE: 10 November 2009