Call for papers
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Deadline: Nov 7, 2011
We welcome paper proposals to a panel at the
38th Annual AAH Conference & Bookfair
The Open University, Milton Keynes
29 - 31 March 2012
'Out of Time'
Session Convenors:
Rosalind McKever, Kingston University rosalind.mckever@gmail.com
James Day, Courtauld Institute of Art james.day@courtauld.ac.uk
The date an artwork was produced does not seal it off from the rest of
time. Indeed historical readings might trace how an artwork intersects
different times. Art history
presents past art through conservation, exhibition and writing.
Artworks are connected diachronically, linking the artist to
predecessors, contemporaries and successors.
Narratives of art chart traditions and innovations, historians
source-hunt for influences and appropriations. Artists are identified
as precursors and rebels; periods and movements are labelled as
renaissances and avantgardes.
The changing interests of art history also affect practice contemporary
to it, as research, excavations, restorations, discoveries and
exhibitions alter the canon, art education and the sources of
appropriation available; they also revise the lens through which we
look at the past.
This session invites papers addressing art from any period,
particularly those which do not belong to that period. In this panel we
will interrogate the temporality of art history by focussing on the
premature, the belated, and the anachronistic.
Topics for papers could include, but are not limited to:
- Precursors and avant-gardes, conservatives and rebels, Post- and Neo
Appropriation, translating art of one time into art of another
- Excavations and discoveries, how unearthing disrupts the past and
affects the present
- Writing art history: non-linear narratives and creative history
- Chronology in galleries and exhibitions
- Posthumous casts, copies and reproductions
- Art education’s role in artists’ relationships with the past
Please send your paper proposal (max 250 words) to both of the panel
convenors, by 7 November 2011
For more information, see http://www.aah.org.uk/page/3366