We have extended our deadline from December 15, 2002 to February 1, 2003.
Thank you very much.
Christina Hauck
Associate Professor
Department of English
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
785-532-2175
Call for Papers: The Work of Art in the Space Between (1914-1945)
The Fifth Annual Meeting of The Space Between
Kansas State University, Manhattan KS
May 29-31, 2003
Framed by the devastations of total war, the years 1914-1945 were marked
by global social, political, economic and cultural upheaval. Amidst the
on-going geo-political contestations and conflicts were the
skirmishes--sometimes serious, sometimes playful--fought in the domain of
art itself. Advocates for tradition and innovation clashed not only in and
over the traditional arts of literature, theatre, painting, sculpture,
dance and music, but also in and over the problematic valorization of new
forms of art, many, such as advertising, fashion, film and photography,
enabled by developments in techniques of "mechanical reproduction."
For its Fifth Annual Conference, upcoming at Kansas State University
(Manhattan, KS), The Space Between invites proposals for papers examining
the contexts, production, definitions, and receptions of "The Work of Art
in the Space Between (1914--1945)." Please submit a 250-300 word abstract
by February 1, 2003 to
Christina Hauck
Department of English, 104 Denison Hall
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
hauckc@ksu.edu
E-submissions encouraged!
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
L'objet d'art: What counts as a work of art? Who decides? What is
appropriate subject matter for a work of art? Who decides? How did
traditional forms of art--including literature and music, as well as
painting and sculpture--change during the period? How did the emergence of
new art forms change or reinforce existing aesthetics?
Artists and workers: Who counts as an artist? Who decides? How do
gender/ethnicity/race/class/nationality/sexuality inform the production of
art? How does commodification change the meaning of artists' labor? To
what extent is labor itself conceived/represented as art? How and why does
paid work become differentiated from (or collapsed into) "art" during this
period?
How art works: What sorts of social/political/economic/cultural work does
art do during this period? What are the systems, formal and informal, for
unveiling and circulating works of art? How does the location of a work
of art change its meaning? How is art funded?
Keynote Speaker
Erika Doss, Professor of Art History and Director of American Studies at
the University of Colorado, Boulder, author of Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith,
and Image (1999), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural
Democracy in American Communities (1995) and other books, will speak on
issues of cultural nationalism in New Deal Art.
Sponsored by the Department of English, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS 66506
THE SPACE BETWEEN
is a society for the study of literature and culture between the wars
which provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and research of
overlooked texts, understudied authors and new approaches to traditionally
canonical texts. We also encourage fresh examination of art, society and
culture illuminating the interwar period. The society sponsors an annual
conference, a journal, a listserv, and an annotated list of websites for
literary research.
Please visit our website at
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jbjones/space/
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