The deadline for proposals for the "American Art in a Global Context" is approaching: January 15, 2006. Please see symposium details and contact information below.
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Call for Papers
"American Art in a Global Context"
September 28-30, 2006
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C.
The field of American art history has turned away from the old paradigm of "what
is American about American art?" In tandem with related disciplines, such as
American studies, history, and literature, it is looking increasingly at relationships
and exchanges with the rest of the world, both historic and contemporary. While
lines of academic and modernist influence from Europe to the United States were
traced in the field's early days, Americanist art historians are now interested
in wider encounters with diverse peoples; they are exploring many levels of culture
and varieties of media as well as rapidly changing modes of international communication.
This symposium will look at American visual art in a global context -- from circum-Atlantic
migrations in the eighteenth century to the impact of European training, trans-Pacific
contacts, and immigration patterns on Americans in the late nineteenth century;
from the export of U.S. culture and media in the twentieth century to the impact
of Latin American, Asian, and other immigrants on the nation's visual arts in
the new millennium. Symposium panels will be thematic and take in all time periods
as well as all media and geographic spheres. Papers should in some way address the
larger issue of how U.S. art and culture has engaged or can better engage its international
context -- through past experience or evolving patterns.
The symposium is being funded with a generous grant from the Terra Foundation for
American Art in celebration of the museum's reopening in 2006 after extensive
renovations. The Terra Foundation is dedicated to fostering exploration, understanding,
and development of the visual arts for national and international audiences. To
further cross-cultural dialogue on American art, it supports and collaborates on
innovative exhibitions, research, and educational programs.
Possible Session Themes:
- Artistic Havens Overseas
- When Expatriates Return
- International Exchanges
- International Perspectives
- The Export of U.S. Culture
- Citizens of the World
- Studying, Collecting, Showing U.S. Art Abroad
- Immigrants and their Impact
- The Future of American Art in a Global Context
Proposals to present 20-minute conference papers should include a 300-word abstract
and a curriculum vita. They should be sent to Amelia Goerlitz, Smithsonian American
Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington D.C. 20013-7012 or via e-mail to
[log in to unmask] Proposals must be written in English. Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2006.
For regularly updated symposium information, please visit www.americanart.si.edu/education/opportunities-symposium.cfm. You may also email [log in to unmask] or telephone Amelia Goerlitz at 202-275-1557
with queries. Faxes may be sent to 202-275-1717.
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