CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty-Third Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on
the Decorative Arts and Design



THE PUBLICS OF ART AND DESIGN

Parsons The New School for Design, New York.

April 10 and 11, 2014.



What happens to design in public? We are seeking papers that address issues
of audience, user feedback, promotion and dissemination of objects from the
Renaissance to the present. How does design become a dialogue between an
object and its public? How are different publics delineated by their
associations with objects? Papers might address such issues as: advertising
and promotion of products; magazines or other vectors of publicity; retail
spaces; museum exhibitions; world's fairs; design for public spaces;
theories of reception; domestication of design; or actors and networks.



Proposals are welcome from graduate students at any level in fields such as
Art History, History of Design, Design Studies, History of the Decorative
Arts, Cultural Anthropology, History of Architecture, Consumer Studies,
Design and Technology, Media Studies, Museum Studies, etc.



The symposium's Catherine Hoover Voorsanger Keynote speaker will be
Professor Michele Bogart of Stony Brook University, whose books
include: Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art; Public Sculpture and
the Civic Ideal in New York City, and The Politics of Urban Beauty.



The Keynote will be on Thursday evening, April 10, 2014 and the symposium
sessions will be in the morning and afternoon on Friday, April 11.





To submit a proposal, send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography and a
c.v. to:

Dr. Ethan Robey Associate Director, MA Program in the History of Decorative
Arts & Design, [log in to unmask]

Deadline for proposals: January 30, 2014



Sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design
offered jointly by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons The
New School for Design

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