Call for Papers: A one-day symposium organized by the European Society for
Nineteenth-Century Art (a working group of the Dutch Postgraduate School for Art
History).
Date: 23rd May, 2013
Venue: University of Amsterdam
Uneasy Alliances: Boundaries and Bargains in Nineteenth-Century Art
This one-day symposium explores ways in which nineteenth-century European
art gave expression to the tensions, possibilities, and limitations attaching to
the formation and breaking of alliances. Having regard to family relations,
artistic encounters, commercial exchanges, and the shaping of geo-political
boundaries, the symposium seeks to explore the nineteenth-century artworld as a
space of personal, pictorial, and political bargaining. Regard will be given to
ways in which alliances (or their rupture) were depicted in, or symbolized by,
the content, production, and transfer of art objects. Whether a reinforcement of
strength or an imposition of boundaries, the combining of interests is examined
as a fertile terrain for aesthetic and social negotiation. Participants are also
invited to reflect on recent methodological and disciplinary 'alliances' that
shape our reading or re-reading of nineteenth-century art history, its art
markets, and exhibition practices.
Please send a proposal for a 20 minute paper to Kathryn Brown (k.j.brown[at]tilburguniversity.edu) and Alba Campo (alba[at]albacampo.com). Proposals should include an
abstract (max 250 words) and details of the presenter's institutional
affiliation. Proposals should be received by no later than 28th February.
