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Opportunities
Call For Papers:
Association of Art Historians Conference 2010
University of Glasgow
15 - 17 APRIL 2010
Re-Assessing National Romanticism
Co-Chairs: Charlotte Ashby, Birkbeck College, University of London
Sabine Wieber, Roehampton University, London
deadline: 9 November 2009
"Until this powerful movement is recognized and demystified, we will not fully understand the intellectual and cultural climate of turn-of-the-century Europe."
Michelle Facos, Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s, Berkley and Los Angeles, 1998, 2-3.
Although linked to the re-evaluation of the legacy of Art Nouveau in the 1960s and 1970s, the term National Romanticism came into wider art historical use in the 1980s and 1990s in relation to growing interest in the cultures of the so-called 'peripheral'nations of Europe; first in the Nordic region and then the post-Eastern Bloc countries. In this context, National Romanticism facilitated the integration of these new regions into the sphere of Western art history, but its continued currency can now be seen to limit the scope of understanding of these cultures in a larger
pan-European context. This session intends to provide an international platform for a critical re-assessment of National Romanticism that challenges some of the art historical assumptions and expectations called up by this term. At the turn of the last century, artists and designers crossed boundaries between disciplines and between social, political and aesthetic concerns, making it difficult to maintain ideological and formal categories and posing a real challenge to the historian of this period. And yet, the works and objects understood as National Romantic and
their relationship to the wider culture of the period offer an intriguing challenge to the lingering influence of a Modernist emphasis on a linear, progressive reading of history.
Deadline for proposals, with a copy to both convenors: 9 November 2009
Further details of the conference can be found at www.aah.org.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS:
EAM and HGCEA Joint Session: High and Low in Central Europe – Dada and Constructivism to Neo-Dada
Session Chair: Timothy O. Benson
HGCEA member are invited to submit paper proposals for the following joint session of HGCEA and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) at the next EAM conference High and Low to be held at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan in Poland from 9-11 September 2010.
Deadline: November 30, 2009
The 1920 Berlin “Dada Fair” proclaimed the “suspension of art dealing” in favor of the sale of “products.” In 1925 Czech Dev?tsiler Karel Teige proclaimed that constructivism brought about “the all-out liquidation of art" and "total collapse of all varieties of so-called art." Rejecting "all aesthetic fetishism" he embraced instead a broad range of activities including film, poetry, photography, and even travel that he considered the functionalist heritage of constructivism.
Teige’s “Poetism,” like Berlin Dadaist Raoul Hausmann’s “Presentism” and Jend?ich Štyrský and Toyen’s “Artificialism,” was intended as a means beyond “-isms,” one strongly dependent upon a leveling of the distinction between high and low. The encounter with popular culture initiated by Dada continued across Europe in the 1920s in many directions with constructivist roots including Hans Richter's montage films of the late 1920s, László Moholy-Nagy’s “Dynamic of a Metropolis” with its “Jazz band and talking picture,” and Teige’s imaginings of "a poem of dance using dynamic abstract forms" of Keaton and Chaplin. Popular imagery flourished in photocollages by artists ranging from Hannah Höch and John Heartfield in Germany to Mieczys?aw Szczuka and Kazimierz Podsadecki in Poland.
Echoes of modernism’s encounter with popular culture in the 1910s and 1920s were sounded in the 1960s when “Neo-Dada” brought about a reappearance of the use of generic culture in Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, and various allied movements. With this resurgence came the concern for the dangers of kitsch raised by writers like Erno Kallai and artists like Naum Gabo at the end of the twenties and codified by Clement Greenberg in 1939. The sixties also saw a return to an anthropological perspective on culture clearly indebted to the rise of functionalism and consideration of what artworks share with artifacts in the twenties.
This session invites papers exploring the role of popular culture and the leveling of the high-low distinction in Dada, Constructivism, and related movements as well as the relationship these movements might have to the “Neo-Dadaist” movements of the 1960s.
Each proposal should include:
1. The paper’s title and a 500-word abstract of the paper
2. The speaker’s name, institutional affiliation, position or title and contact information.
3. The speaker’s CV (one page)
Proposals for participation in sessions must be received by November 30, 2009.
Proposals for participation in this session should be sent directly to Timothy Benson at tbenson@lacma.org
Other EAM sessions of interest can be found at
http://www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl/
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Call for Participation:
High and Low
Second bi-annual conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM)
9-11 September 2010, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland
Due November 30, 2009
EAM and session chairs invite your participation in one of the selected thematic sessions. The session list can be found below. To find out more about the accepted sessions visit the conference’s website (www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl).
Proposals for participation in sessions should be sent directly to the appropriate session chair(s), and not to EAM.
Each proposal should include:
- The paper’s title and a 500-word abstract of the paper
- The speaker’s name, institutional affiliation, position or title and contact information.
- The speaker’s CV (one page)
Proposals for participation in sessions must be received by November 30, 2009.
Chairs determine the speakers for their sessions and reply to all applicants by February 1, 2010.
No one may participate in more than one session. Session chairs must be informed if one or more proposals are being submitted to other sessions for consideration. Acceptance in a session implies a commitment to attend that session and participate in person.
For all queries, please contact the principal organiser: Agata Jakubowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) at: eam2010@amu.edu.pl
EAM Pozna? 2010 SESSIONS:
To find out more about the accepted sessions visit the conference’s website.http://www.eam2010.amu.edu.pl
- Italian Futurism Futurism at 100, Still at the Crossroads of High and Low Bradley Bowers
- Dada - Homo Ludens: beyond the Sublime and the Vulgar. Play forms of the Avant-garde Rainer Rumold
- La chanson et les avant-gardes Nathalie Piégay-Gros
- Modernist Literature, Popular Music and Identity Politics Debora Van Durme
- Between the Sounds of Deep Africa and the Rythms of Modern Machines. Jazz and its presence in European Avant-gardes: from dadaists to surrealists Przemys?aw Stro?ek
- Chaplin Chris Townsend, Barnaby Dicker
- Popular Theatre and Performance Practices of the Historical Avant-garde Günter Berghaus
- Fans and critics: Literature, Cinema and the Battle of the Brows 1900-1950 Lara Feigel
- Between folk and highbrow: popular culture and its functions in avant-garde magazines of the 1920s and 1930s Hanno Ehrlicher
- Die Avantgarde der Esoterischen Moderne – Zur Entstehung einer Populärkultur Robert Matthias Erdbeer, Benedikt Hjartarson
- Language Mysticism and the Literary Avant-Gardes Sami Sjöberg, Antti Salminen
- Artificial Highs in High and Low Culture Richard Millington
- Avant-Garde and Anti-Avant-Garde Moves in the Architecture of Everyday Life Dirk van den Heuvel, Tahl Kaminer
- High, Low or Middle-Brow? Photography in and against Modernism and the Avant-garde Elena Gualtieri
- Fashion, Fetish & The Body Ruth Hemus, Lidia Gluchowska
- Plagiarism and Piracy as Avant-garde Practices Hubert van den Berg, Joanna Orska
- Mass Production Machines: High, Low, and Avant-Garde Craig Saper
- The First World War, the novel, and the avant-garde Bjarne Søndergaard Bendtsen, Andrew Frayn
- When low becomes high: British Avant-Garde 1910-1914 Dominika Buchowska
- Late Modernist Poetic Practice and Cultural Nationalism in the British Isles Matthew Chambers
- Early Modernism in East-Central Europe: From the ‘Naked Soul’ to Institutionalization Maija Burima, Benedikts Kalna?s
- High and Low in Central Europe – Dada and Constructivism to Neo-Dada Timothy O. Benson (EAM and HGCEA Joint Session)
- Slippage into lowness. Art and theory in Eastern Europe Luiza Nader
- Peninsular Counterculture? Reassessing High and Low, or the Western Front of Modernism from a Transnational Perspective Esther Sánchez-Pardo
- ‘High’ and ‘low’ in Greek culture during the 1960s and 1970s Elena Hamalidi
- Popular Culture, Avant-Garde and Cultural Policy in Scandinavia Tania Ørum
- Comic als literarisches Experimentierfel Carola Hilmes, Kalina Kupczynska
- Wired for Unsound: Aesthetics and the Avant-garde in Digital Media Andrew Klobucar
- High & low, a tale of woe: how does contemporary art deal with a perennial issue? Andrew McNamara, Ann Stephen
Call
for Midwest Exhibition Reviewers for caa.reviews
deadline: ongoing
Dear HGCEA members;
I am the field editor for Midwest
exhibitions for caa.reviews, an online publication sponsored by
the College Art Association. I am looking for HGCEA members interested
in writing reviews of exhibitions in the Midwest. We are interested
in reviews of exhibitions at both large and small museums and arts
centers, as well as and especially university or college museums,
and are open to a wide range of subjects in the history of art,
design, and culture, ancient to contemporary. CAA considers the
Midwest to extend from Michigan to Montana and down to Kansas, including
Manitoba and Saskatchewan. You can peruse the website and already
published reviews at http://www.caareviews.org.
At the present, I am looking for a scholar in the
Chicago area to review the exhibition on German Modernism at the
Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, on view through September
16, 2007.
Reviews typically run 1,500 words
and ideally appear while the exhibition is still on view. Submission
guidelines can be found at http://www.caareviews.org/about/submissions.
Currently caa.reviews does not have the ability to compensate our
reviewers. However, like the other affiliated CAA journals, Art
Journal and Art Bulletin, reviews for caa.reviews are part of the
academic rewards system whereby unpaid publications count toward
jobs and tenure. In addition, in most cases exhibition reviewers
can receive a free copy of any accompanying exhibition catalogue.
If anyone is interested in reviewing the above
exhibition or has another exhibition in the Midwest you would like
to propose for review, please contact me at kmakholm@mcad.edu. I
look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Kristin Makholm,
Ph.D.
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
612/874-3667
kmakholm@mcad.edu
HGCEA member
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