[Reader-list] [Announcements] CFP: Subtle Histories: Uncovering the Unseen in Visual Culture

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CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for abstracts June 16, 2004

Subtle Histories: Uncovering the Unseen in Visual Culture

Graduate Symposium - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA - November 12, 
2004

sub·tle  \sut'-l\, adj. 1 a: DELICATE, ELUSIVE <a ~ DEFANGED_fragrance>  b: 
difficult to understand or distinguish : OBSCURE <~differences in 
sound>  2 a: PERCEPTIVE, REFINED <a writer's sharp and ~ moral sense>  
b: having or marked by keen insight and ability to penetrate deeply and 
thoroughly  <a ~ DEFANGED_scholar>  3 a: highly skillful: EXPERT <a ~ DEFANGED_craftsman> 
 b: cunningly made or contrived: INGENIOUS  4: ARTFUL, CRAFTY <a ~ 
DEFANGED_rogue>

Graduate students in any discipline are invited to submit abstracts for 
the 39th annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, the 
longest-running Art History student symposium in the United States.  To 
be held on November 12, 2004, this event will bring together emerging 
scholars to share their research on any aspect of the visual arts 
relevant to this year's theme.  This year, for the first time, the 
event will take place in the UCLA Hammer Museum, an important center of 
art and culture in the heart of West Los Angeles.

This year's theme, Subtle Histories: Uncovering the Unseen in Visual 
Culture, is meant to encourage the disclosure of subtle, or untold, 
stories in art history, those that have been marginalized by adherence 
to strict disciplinary categories.  We seek innovative submissions from 
scholars in any field who are concerned with the uncovering of such 
visual histories that have been hidden, lost, or never realized.  In a 
climate charged with identity politics, often based on binary 
oppositions, have we been overlooking those stories that do not fit 
neatly into these binaries?  During the past two decades, Postcolonial 
studies, for instance, has increased our awareness of the complexity of 
cultural interaction and exchange, both past and present.  How can this 
kind of critical reassessment be applied to other periods, cultures and 
media, within the broad domain of visual art, to address these new, 
composite cultural and political identities and histories?  How can we 
incorporate these stories into the discourse?  Writers such as 
Antoinette Burton, Ann Stoler, and Christopher Pinney, among others, 
have sought to direct our attention to these "smaller" stories that 
have not yet found a place within standard academic divisions.  

Contributions from fields ranging from anthropology to the sciences 
have successfully challenged Art History's established categories and 
opened up new spaces for the recovery of representations that did not 
fit the frames of the discourse.  Our goal is to build on those strides 
that have already been made and further explore the subtle complexities 
in visual culture and representation.

Possible questions that might be asked include:
-In what ways have categories of knowledge influenced how works of art 
are judged and valued?
-How must old frameworks be reconfigured in order to "tease out" 
neglected or marginalized histories?
-Are there unknown histories behind shifting standards of taste and 
beauty, through time and across cultures?
-In what way have regimes of power and patronage inhibited the 
recording of subtle histories?
-How has the absence of subtle histories in the discourse affected the 
construction of cultural memory?

Abstracts of 300 words or less, along with a C.V., must be postmarked 
by June 16, 2004.  Submissions may be e-mailed to 
<ahsympos at humnet.ucla.edu>  or mailed to:

AHGSA Symposium 2004
Department of Art History, UCLA
100 Dodd Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417

Visit the UCLA AHGSA Symposium website at :
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ahgsa/symposium.html



	
		
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