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Guidelines for submitting proposals AHAA at CAA: New York, Wednesday, February 9–Saturday, February 12, 2011
Business Meeting Date, Time, and Location: Friday, February 11, 2011, 12:30-2:00pm, Hilton New York, Regent Parlor, 2nd Floor
Scholarly Session "Color and Nineteenth-Century American Painting" Chair: Peter John Brownlee, Terra Foundation for American Art Date, Time, and Location: Friday, February 11, 2011, 2:30-5:00pm, Hilton New York, Madison Suite, 2nd Floor Over the past decade, color, in theoretical and material terms, has emerged as a viable analytical category in the study of American art, yielding a number of important articles, books, and exhibitions. This panel invites academics, curators, and conservators to share recent work concerning color as it relates to the production and reception of painting in the long nineteenth century. Papers may analyze artists' studio practices and materials or address broader topics such as the global trade in these materials, the role of scientific and technical manuals in disseminating theories and methods, the influence of color printing and other mechanical arts, artistic debates regarding color's role in painting, the symbolic and spiritual dimensions of color, and the physiology of color perception. Papers engaging both cultural and technical issues in transatlantic perspective are particularly welcome.
“Sunshine out of Lead: Pigments into Art” Professional Session "(Re)Collecting Memory: Oral History as Testimony of Lived Experience" Co-chairs: Melanie Herzog, Art Dept., Edgewood College and Frances Pohl, Dept. of Art and Art History, Pomona College Date, Time, and Location: Thursday, February 10, 2011, 12:30-2:00pm, Hilton New York, Gibson Room, 2nd Floor
Through oral history, art historical subjects tell their stories of their lived experience. This session will explore strategies for preparing for, conducting, interpreting, and preserving oral history interviews. While oral history narratives can provide unique and valuable insight into the historical record, as products of fallible human memory and real-time social interactions they can also present challenges: archival searches for corroborating evidence may prove these memories factually inaccurate; divergent social positions of interviewer and interview subject may frame the telling of a story; an interview subject may deliberately or inadvertently privilege some aspects of their story and occlude others. We are looking for speakers—e.g. art historians with extensive oral history experience, scholars/teachers of oral history and oral history archivists—who can address these challenges through consideration of factors, such as the ways that oral history testimonies comprise authentic memories that illuminate historical events even though they may be at odds with historical “facts,” or the ways that imbalances of power between interviewer and interviewee may shape the contours of an oral history interview. “The Conversation That Isn't: The Role of the Interviewer in the Oral History Process” "Multiple Truths and the Construction of Life Stories" |
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