CFP: American Art in the 1930s

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> Please see information for a panel at the upcoming SECAC conference  
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> Submissions due April 20.
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> American Art in the 1930s:
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> Radicalism and Its foreign Influences
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> This panel invites proposals that assess the sources of the radical  
> political and artistic tendencies that filtered into American art in  
> the 1930s. During the many crises of this era, American artists  
> sought inspiration to give new purpose to their art. While some  
> mined the nation’s “usable past” for inspiration, a vanguard sector  
> of artists engaged in radical sociopolitical and artistic movements,  
> which often sprung from foreign influences. These artists reassessed  
> their role in society, often concluding that avant-garde techniques  
> or ideological art would engender broad change in both art and  
> society. In this period (perhaps more than in other moments of  
> American art history) artistic form became an arena for political  
> action.
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> Important international examples of artists intimately linked with  
> social change served as encouragement, such as the Mexican  
> Muralists, the Russian Constructivists, and even the Italian  
> Futurists. American artists took this inspiration to vocalize their  
> stance within the political disputes of the day. In particular, we  
> welcome papers examining the influences that encouraged artistic  
> engagement with the fractious and contested social milieu of the  
> era, in the realms of painting, sculpture, photography, dance,  
> theater, film, and graphic design.
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> Panel co-chaired by Randall Edwards, The Graduate Center, CUNY and  
> Daniel Palmer, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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> Complete call for papers available at http://www.secollegeart.org/forms/secac2012-Durham-Call-for-Papers-SESSION-LIST.pdf
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> Conference information and paper proposal form at http://www.secollegeart.org/annual-conference.html
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