CFP Art and Its Classes
New York, March 27-29, 2014.

http://www.rsa.org/blogpost/947529/163239/Art-and-its-Classes
RSA website: www.rsa.org.

For the panel "Art and its Classes” speakers are invited to explore how social mobility (or lack thereof) influenced patronage, creation and study of art during the Renaissance, and/or address the wider question of elitism in art history. Topics could include but are not limited to:

· how Giorgio Vasari’s position at court influenced his Lives

· Karel van Mander’s nobility and his Het Schilderboek

· group patronage among the lower and emerging middle classes

· ennobling of artists (Michelangelo, Titian, Giambologna among others)

· social mobility expressed through display at French, English, Italian or German courts

· early modern/contemporary distinctions between "high” and "low” art

· collecting "exotic” art and objects from outside Europe (and vice versa) as class markers

· current diffusion of and /or "dumbing down” of Renaissance art history via television, video games, social media and public history.

Please send 150 word abstracts and a short c.v. to Meghan Callahan and David Boffa (meghan.a.callahangmail.com, davidboffagmail.com) by May 30.