Wanted: Essays on Women & Fashion
The following Call for Essay Proposals went out to C-18L on 6 August:
Women of Fashion: Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century and the Eighteenth Century in Popular Culture, Edited by Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia)
Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine women’s popular culture in eighteenth-century England and representations of eighteenth-century England in modern popular culture. The volume will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011.
Women of Fashion will have three sections:
1) women and eighteenth-century arts (theatre, literature, music, painting)
2) women and eighteenth-century life (fashion, games, courtship, weddings, politics)
3) modern engagements of eighteenth-century women’s culture (in films, historical fiction, art exhibits, web communities, fan groups).
Please send a 500-word abstract or completed essay (4,000-6,000 words), plus a brief biographical statement (or c.v.), as e-mail attachments (in Word or RTF) to Tiffany Potter (tpotter@interchange.ubc.ca). The deadline for abstract submission is 28 August 2009. (more…)
Size Matters in Omaha
Midwest Art History Society Call for Session Proposals (due 23 August)
8-10 April 2010 – Omaha, Nebraska
Étienne-Louis Boullée, "Projet de Bibliothèque Royale," 1785
The Midwest Art History Society is currently accepting session proposals for its annual conference, to be held next spring in Omaha. The meeting’s timely theme – Exploring Monumentality: Re-Thinking Scale Relationships in Art – comes on the heels of the remarkable 2008-09 exhibition, Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian (organized by Larry Silver with Elizabeth Wyckoff), and precedes an exhibition at the Getty that will pursue the subject into the seventeenth century; Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and the Monumental Prints of the Ancien Régime (organized by Louis Marchesano) opens May 18 and runs through October 17.
The MAHS conference might provide an ideal venue for asking how oversize scale functioned in the eighteenth century (one thinks perhaps of Vanbrugh, Boullée, or Piranesi). Conference organizers will include some topics not related to the theme of monumentality, so other session ideas are welcome, too. Here’s the official call for proposals:
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For its 37th annual conference in Omaha, Nebraska (April 8-10, 2010), the Midwest Art History Society will devote the majority of sessions to a central topic–Monumentality. All cultures and periods have generated works of large relative scale. Well-known examples include the Colossus of Rhodes, the monumental heads of Easter Island, Mount Rushmore, the enormous statuary at Buddhist temple complexes throughout Asia, Michelangelo’s David, and the oversized creations of contemporary artist Jeff Koons. We invite session proposals devoted to the impact and meaning of size; logistical considerations for large and small-scale works; famous and/or important monumental works; and other issues related to scale. Because we will still offer open sessions for conference papers that do not address the central issue, we also invite proposals for sessions on other topics apart from that of our central theme. (more…)
European Architectural History Network
The Museu de Alberto Sampaio, Guimarães, founded as a museum of ecclesiastical art in 1928 and located in portions of the former convent of the Collegiate Church of Nossa Senhora da Oliveira in the heart of the city. Photograph: EAHN
A new CAA affiliate society, the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) has launched a smart-looking website with various sorts of useful content and a striking newsletter available for download (it includes the image and caption shown to the right). As outlined in its mission statement, EAHN “supports research and education by providing a public forum for the dissemination of knowledge about the histories of architecture. Based in Europe, it serves architectural historians and scholars in allied fields without restriction on their areas of study.” You do not, in other words, need to work on a European topic to be an active member.
The group’s first international meeting takes place in Guimarães, Portugal, 17-20 June 2010. Paper proposals are due by 30 October 2009 (see below for two session that might be relevant for eighteenth-century scholars).
The organization has also compiled a list of ranked architectural journals. Last updated in 2007, the version currently available on the Network’s website includes just over 100 periodicals, which are assigned a ranking of A, B, or C. The group explains the project as follows:
EAHN is working on this list as a support for architectural historians and their institutes to be able to validate their research output. In the absence of ranked list of periodicals in the field of architectural history by institutions such as ISI (Web of Science), it is important that we provide a list that can act as an international reference point for research in architectural history. This list is far from complete or adequate. As it stands now, it is based upon an agreement between architectural department in Flemish universities, who worked on a provisional list. We invite individuals and schools to react to this list, with proposals for extending it or for reconsidering the ranking of specific journals. Please mail to hilde.heynen@asro.kuleuven.be
CALL FOR PAPERS
Territorial Defensive Systems of European Colonies: 15th to 18th Centuries
Museum of Architecture / Architecture in the Museum (more…)
Call for Papers: Venice at Sea
Venice Street detail, photo by Maria Schnitzmeier (Wikimedia Commons)
From H-Net:
Venice and the Mediterranean 13th – End of 18th Centuries, in connection with the Third Mediterranean Maritime History Network (MMHN) Conference
Izmir, Turkey
May 5-7, 2010
Contact Professor Jean-Calude Hocquet (ruger@research.haifa.ac.il, jc-hocquet@wanadoo.fr)
Proposals are due 29 August 2009
See also the general CFPs.
The Grand Canal from the Ca d’Oro, photo by Procsilas Moscas (Wikimedia Commons)
Call for Papers: Colonial Built Environment at SAH
Barbara Burlison Mooney, author most recently of Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite – which, I should note, received a glowing review earlier this year from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography – is chairing a session at next year’s meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Chicago (21-25 April 2010). She sends the following call for papers:
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Proposals are due 15 August 2009
Taking the Measure of New Colonial Architectural History
Arguably, the article “Impermanent Architecture in the Southern American Colonies,” the result of collaboration among architectural historians, archaeologists, and historians and published in 1981, stands as the most important work of scholarship on the built environment of America’s colonial period appearing in the last half century. By exploiting archaeological practices, the interdisciplinary authors of this article demonstrated the pervasive presence of hole-set, or earthfast, construction technology in Tidewater Virginia and Maryland and undermined the stereotyped image of extant genteel mansions that was well known through the scholarship of S. Fiske Kimball and Thomas T. Waterman, among others. Combined with critical concepts from the Annales School, the Civil Rights Movement, Feminism, and post-Formalist literary theory, “Impermanent Architecture” heralded a new, productive era of research in the field of Colonial American architectural history, which is open to diverse and challenging interpretations.
Subsequently, architectural historians and their cohorts in other disciplines have created a more nuanced image of the colonial built environment that includes African Americans, women, the so-called “middling sort,” and a greater sensitivity to discerning regional and international practices operative in early America. Scholars of the period also have become more attuned to the importance of non-British building traditions. Researchers continue to marshal new methodologies, as well as interdisciplinary and trans-Atlantic approaches, to expand our understanding of the era and its elastic boundaries. This session aims to take the current measure of the New Colonial Architectural History by inviting paper proposals demonstrating how both innovative and traditional research strategies and theoretical perspectives continue to inform the history of the early North American built envinronment. Paper proposals are invited that address new archaeological, archival, analytical, or methodological investigations in the field. Research in French, Spanish, Dutch, German, and Caribbean as well as British colonial architecture is welcome.
Send proposals by August 15, 2009 to Barbara Burlison Mooney, School of Art and Art History, W619 Seashore Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 Email: barbara-mooney@uiowa.edu Phone 319-335-1785 Fax 319-335-1774. For proposal length and other requirements, please consult the Society of Architectural Historians website.
Spring in Albuquerque
Abstracts due by September 15
At the 2009 ASECS conference in Albuquerque, March 18-21, HECAA will host two sessions, chaired by Wendy Wassying Roworth and Adrienne Childs:
HECAA New Scholars Session (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture) Wendy Wassyng Roworth, U. Rhode Island; (home) 112 Slater Avenue, providence, RI 02906; Tel: (401) 351-6448 (home); Fax: (401) 874-2729; E-mail: wroworth@uri.edu
This session will feature papers by graduate students and recent recipients of the doctoral degree on new research in the history of art and architecture. Papers are welcome on all aspects of art history including studies of art collecting, patronage, exhibitions, and art production in all media.
Theorizing the Decorative in Eighteenth-Century Art (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture) Adrienne Childs, David C. Driskell Center, 1214 Cole Student Activities Center, U. of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742 (ATTN: ASECS Session Submission); Tel: (301) 314–2615; E-mail: alchilds@umd.edu
“Decorative” is a term that has been consistently used to describe the arts of the eighteenth century. Applied to painting, sculpture, material culture, interior design, architecture, and more, decoration evokes a feeling of luxury and abundance. In recent years scholars of eighteenth-century art have attempted to look beyond the profusion of floral motifs and arabesque lines to investigate how these seemingly innocuous motifs are part of larger social, economic, political, and cultural systems at work in the period. This paper seeks papers that engage critical and theoretical perspectives that investigate and decode the “decorative.”
In addition, there are numerous other panels that should prove interesting for art and architectural historians. You can, of course, check the ASECS website for details and a full listing, but a couple of dozen are included here: (more…)
Art & Stage Conference in Connection with Delaroche Show
Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1833 (London: National Gallery)
CORRESPONDANCES
Exchanges and Tensions between Art, Theatre and Opera in France, c.1750-1850
National Gallery, London, 26-27 March 2010
in collaboration with the University of Nottingham: Institute for Research in Visual Culture (NIRVC) and Centre for Music on Stage and Screen (MOSS)
Abstracts due September 1, 2009
This conference will explore a rich field of interdisciplinary research, that of the relations between art, theatre and opera in France from the later 18C to the mid 19C. As key elements in Parisian cultural life, art, theatre and opera all underwent extensive changes during this period, adapting and responding to profound socio-political disruption and transformation from the Revolution to the Second Republic. Painting, theatre and opera all shared concerns with the representation of compelling narrative, and more specifically with choices regarding contemporary or historic subjects. One aspect of this dynamic situation was the highly permeable interface/threshold that existed between different media. (more…)
CFPs — AAH 2010 in Glasgow
15 – 17 April 2010
University of Glasgow
The 36th annual conference of the Association of Art Historians takes place next spring in Glasgow. Paper proposals should be submitted by 9 November 2009. For details and a full listing of panels, see the AAH website. Topics include
- Objects, Art History and Display
- Exhibitions as Research: Theory, Practice, Problems
- Picturing the Sensorium in Art from Antiquity to 1800
- Reading to Attention
- Imperial Tensions: Visual Cultures of Coercion, Silence and Display
- Hogarth and the Vernacular Renaissance in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture: The Influence of Context and Collaboration in Sculptural Practice from the 18th Century to the Present
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