MSA 6 Panel: Avant-Garde Women Across the Arts (4/30/04; MSA 10/21-24/04)
Modernist Studies Association 6th Annual Conference
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 21-24 October 2004
During the twentieth century, the work of avant-garde women across the
arts of literature, music, painting, dance, and sculpture were often known
about, but left unexamined. In this panel, we will assess the struggles of
these innovators, their reasons for crafting new forms, the works they
exposed and those they kept private, and the reception of pieces that
entered the public domain. How do these women convey the pain and
exhilaration of breaking new ground? In what ways were they helped and
hindered by the men to whom they attached themselves, romantically,
intellectually, and for purposes of collaboration? Were their struggles
similar to those of their male counterparts? In what ways do the stories of
women from different disciplines (and locales) overlap and diverge? Papers
may focus on single or multiple creators. A partial list of avant-garde
women would include Edith Sitwell, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Frida
Kahlo, Camille Claudel, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Ruth Crawford Seeger,
Tania León, and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Please send 250-word abstract to Dr. Lauren Kozol <lkozol@duke.poly.edu> or
<lkozol@hotmail.com> by Friday, April 30th.
Conference theme: Other Modernisms/Modernism’s Others. Conference Info:
http://www.sfu.ca/conferences/msa/
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