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CFP: Art in the Public Sphere: Middle Ages & Renaissance

AAH Glasgow, 15-17 Apr 10

Thursday 28 May 2009, by Mathieu Perona

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On the occasion of the AAH (Association of Art Historians) Annual
Conference, 15-17 April 2010, University of Glasgow, a session on the
following topic will be held:

ART IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, PUBLIC SPHERES IN ART. MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

Art has helped to define spaces for communication in the public sphere since
the middle ages, and its own basic concepts have been shaped by these
processes. Correspondingly, genres and themes, methods and tasks have had
constantly to be adapted to changing habits of communication in the
political communities of European cities. Our aim is to address art in the
public sphere from ca. 1200 to ca. 1600 with a focus on visual discourse and
aesthetic experience. We are interested in papers that address the impact of
political discourse on the community’s self-fashioning; stylistic norms and
social distinction through art; the creation and negotiation of spaces for
art and for visual communication; as well as visual communication shaped and
restricted by public regulation. We are also interested in the spacial and
intellectual frameworks in which works of art were beheld, discussed, and
made accessible to different audiences. Last but not least, we are
interested in how these issues are visually reflected or subverted in the
works themselves. We especially invite contributions that go beyond the
established text-based readings of political iconography.

If you would like to submit a paper, please send a 250 word abstract to the
two session convenors (e-mail addresses as below) before 9 November 2009.
Your name and your institutional affiliation with full contact details
should also be included in the abstract. Contributions will be limited to ca
25 minutes in length.

Wolfgang Brückle
Department of Art History and Theory
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
UK Colchester CO4 3SQ
wbruckle@essex.ac.uk

Jules Lubbock
Department of Art History and Theory
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
UK Colchester CO4 3SQ
lubbj@essex.ac.uk

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