CFP: [20th] Modernism and Fraud--MSA 2008

Fraudulent modernisms
>From the first Impressionist exhibition to today, modern artistic
production has had a fraught relationship with fraud and aesthetic concepts
undergirding fraud, such as authenticity, sincerity, and intent. For the
2008 Modernist Studies Association conference in Nashville, I am looking
for papers on fraudulent modernism, broadly conceived, as well as papers
that consider individual frauds.
Possible questions to consider include:
What part has fraud played in the reception histories of modernism?
What is the relationship between modernism and fraud? Fraud and parody?
Does a high value placed on aesthetic originality encourage fraud? Do
frauds arise in times of aesthetic instability? Do forgeries?
How does fraudulent modernism challenge/redirect an aesthetics based on
sincerity? Are there useful ways to think of insincerity as a positive
aesthetic value?
Does intent matter?
In what way does modernism’s engagement with fraud impinge upon its ethics?
How do individual instances and forms of fraud (such as bogus memoirs,
sell-outs, and parodies) recast some of these questions?
What is the relationship between modernist fraud and mass culture?

Send 250-word abstracts by April 28 to Len Diepeveen at:
leonard.diepeveen_at_dal.ca

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