Apocryphal Biography and Autobiography This session seeks papers that examine the use of creative license in a biography or autobiography. For the purpose of this session, creative license is when the facts of a person’s life are adjusted or revised to benefit the subject. The process may be conscious or unconscious: a subject may purposefully mislead a biographer or may misremember past events while recounting them. In addition, an autobiography whose author has not been overly honest may become the foundation for biographies which repeat the same “facts”. Papers should rely upon primary and secondary sources, such as letters, diaries, and published documents, to explore how creative license was used in the production of an accepted biography or autobiography. Previous papers have included: “A Case of Suspicious Genealogy: Abbé Lambert & the Mansart Family”; “Trauma Victim or Drama Queen?: Art & Artifice in Sylvia Plath’s Self-Portrayals”; “On Henry Miller’s Spiral Form in His Autobiographical Novels”; “1850's Letters from Rembrandt: The Place of Spiritualism in Mount’s (Auto)biography”; “Arthur G. Dove: Reevaluating the Life & Work of the “Naive” American”; “Eleanor Antin’s Portraiture of the 1970s: The Fiction of the Self”; “Truth & Fiction: Or, How Buckminster Fuller Became an Architect”. The 18th Annual Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association’s 2007 conference is from November 2-4, 2007 at the Radisson Plaza-Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. Registration fees apply. For more information, please go to <http://www.wcenter.ncc.edu/gazette/>. Deadline for proposals: July 1, 2007 Send 1-page proposal, CV & AV needs via snail mail to: Rett Lorance School of Visual Arts P.O. Box 461 Inwood Station New York, NY 10034-0461 Apologies for Cross-Postings Loretta Lorance, Ph.D. [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).
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