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----CALL FOR PAPERS
Association of Art Historians 27th Annual Conference 29 March -1 April Oxford Brookes University Making Connections Conference Organiser: Dr Christiana Payne E-mail: conf-2001@aah.org.uk AAH homepage: http//www.aah.org.uk
Reply to this call for papers directly to: d.rowe@roehampton.ac.uk.
Deadline: 150 word abstracts to be received by 10 November 2000
Session Title: 'Re-connecting public and private: Art, Gender and the European City, c.1880-1930'
Session Outline: Over the last two decades, discussions of cultural modernity have centralised the significance of the public spaces of the city within the discursive framework of modernism. Gendered interventions into these debates have often focussed on the role of the flâneur and the spaces open to the female flâneuse within the constructions of the modernist city. However, more recent contributions to the debate, whilst noting that the flâneur, as a central character of modernity, ‘was inherently gendered male’, are attempting to reconceptualise current approaches to modernity that ‘give priority to the street and the public arena in the very definition of modernity’, (Wolff, J.: 2000:3). Drawing on these debates, this session seeks contributions from papers that will explore existing connections and offer modes of reconnection between public and private spheres of representation within modernist metropolitan culture. A shift of focus from gendered public spaces towards a consideration of inter-subjective approaches to common tropes of modernity will form part of the rationale for this session. Issues for consideration may include the following:
Can interpretations of ‘the private’ impact on constructions of ‘the public’ and if so, in what ways? Equally, how do constructions of public discourse and the city impact on the operations, interactions and exchanges between private individuals?
Papers should focus on the interpretation of visual images and objects as they connect with European urban culture between the 1880s and 1930s. Papers that offer alternatives to the dominant Parisian paradigms of modernity during this period are welcome.
References: Wolff, Janet, (2000) ‘Gender and the Haunting of Cities, (Or, The Retirement of the Flâneur’) (unpublished lecture, April 2000)
Dr Dorothy Rowe School of Arts University of Surrey Roehampton Froebel College London SW15 5PJ Tel: 020-8392 3388 Fax: 020-8392 3705
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