CFP: On Collecting: Formation, Transmission, and Reception (grad) (6/15/05; 10/28/05)

 <<Call for paper AHsympos 2005.doc>>
CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submitting abstracts is June 15, 2005
Please distribute to your graduate students!

On Collecting: Formation, Transmission, and Reception

Graduate students in any discipline are invited to submit abstracts for
the 40th annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, the
longest-running Art History student symposium in the United States. To
be held on October 28, 2005, this event will bring together emerging
scholars to share their research on any aspect of the visual arts
relevant to this year's theme. The event will take place at the UCLA
Hammer Museum, an important center of art and culture in the heart of
West Los Angeles.

This year's theme, On Collecting: Formation, Transmission, and
Reception, examines collecting as a central avenue of discourse in the
study of material culture. For example, the scholarship of Susan
Pearce, Pierre Bourdieu, Arjun Appadurai, and Craig Clunas highlights
issues of social class, culture, cultural legitimacy, and personhood in
relation to the acquisition of an art object. Extending this discourse
of the object to the broader problem of the collection, we specifically
question the following relationships of object to collection.

Formation
The processes of desire, acquisition, and incorporation: the art object
is singularly interpreted and defined, then classified as part to whole.
How do we understand the collector as agent? How does the interest in
and function of the singular object define the collection as a whole?

Transmission
The path of the object and collection through time and space: the
collection enters a market, private, or public realm to be
re-interpreted, re-evaluated, and re-classified. What physical and
social borders does the object or collection transcend? Do objects,
collections, and their classifications withstand the challenge of time?

Reception
The destination of the art object and collection: the collection enters
the social realms of display and function. How do initial sites of
collecting and audience relate to use and display in public or private,
elite and non-elite destinations? How does the notion of a collection
influence the storage, reproduction, and reinvention of art objects?
We invite innovative submissions from scholars in any field, and
encourage those from non-western disciplines, who wish to address the
scope and legitimacy of the collection within the history of art.

Abstracts of 300 words or less, along with a C.V., must be postmarked by
June 15, 2005. Submissions may be e-mailed to
<ahsympos_at_humnet.ucla.edu> or mailed to:

AHGSA Symposium 2005
Department of Art History, UCLA
100 Dodd Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417

Visit the UCLA AHGSA Symposium website at :
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/collecting/home.htm
 
         ==========================================================
              From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
                        CFP_at_english.upenn.edu
                         Full Information at
                     http://cfp.english.upenn.edu
         or write Jennifer Higginbotham: higginbj_at_english.upenn.edu
         ==========================================================
Received on Sun Apr 17 2005 - 08:09:46 EDT