Call for proposals, CAA Annual Conference Session 2011:

Session: The Afterlife of Cubism

Chairs: Karen K. Butler, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington
University in St. Louis, and Paul Galvez, School of the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston

Email questions/proposals to: karenbutlerwustl.edu and
paul.galveztufts.edu

For more information and instructions, see:
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2011callforparticipation.pdf
Deadline for submissions: May 3, 2010

Session description:
It has been two decades since the exhibition "Picasso and Braque:
Pioneering Cubism" and its corresponding symposium was held at the
Museum of Modern Art in 1989. Subsequent scholarship has focused
on Picasso and Braque's innovations in the teens, often at the
expense of their later work. Recent exhibitions and scholarly work
on late Picasso suggest the discourse is changing, but these
examples still prioritize Picasso over all others. It seems high
time for a reevaluation of the larger history of Cubism and its
afterlife in the decades between 1920 and 1950. Papers might
consider how prominent artists associated with Cubism, such as
Picasso, Braque, Gris, and Léger, came to terms with its success
in their later work, or address how succeeding generations engaged
with High Cubism. Papers might also address Cubism as a cultural
idiom in its own right.