Fwd: Proposals for 2017 Session at CAA

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Karla Huebner

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Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:46 PM
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Dear HGSCEA Members,

As you may know by now, CAA has changed their format for next year's
conference, with sessions limited to ninety minutes and individual papers
eligible for acceptance.  Affiliated societies, such as HGSCEA, must now
submit pre-formed panels.  To that end, I am posting here the abstract for
our 2017 session which is being chaired by Paul Stirton from Bard Graduate
Center.  Please submit your proposals, limited to 400 words, together with
a brief c.v. no longer than two pages.  If accepted, applicants will need
to be members of HGSCEA and CAA.  Applications should be submitted to:
*[email protected]
<[email protected]> *by *April 4*.

Best,
Marsha Morton
HGSCEA Board President

*Revivalism in 20th Century Design in Germany, Central Europe, and
Scandinavia*



For much of the twentieth century, Revivalism and Historicism were felt to
be reactionary tendencies in design. In 1961 Nikolaus Pevsner encapsulated
the Modernist view when he stated, “all reviving of styles of the past is a
sign of weakness.” Despite this condemnation, revivalist styles thrived in
Germany, Central Europe, and Scandinavia throughout the century, whether
for nationalistic, aesthetic, religious, or political reasons. In a period
of shifting political boundaries, uneven economic growth, thwarted national
aspirations, and an uneasy dialectic between regional, national, and
internationalist impulses in design, it is not surprising that historic and
vernacular sources should be revived and imbued with a complex range of
meanings. This session aims to explore the deeper significance of
revivalist movements in design, both short-lived and localized, as well as
the broader stylistic tendencies that survived over longer periods.



“Style,” as an analytical tool and indicator of meaning, has been largely
ignored by design and art historians during the past generation. This
session intends to examine those period and vernacular revivals within the
wider context of social and political change. The main focus of the session
will be design and decoration, whether public or domestic, but
contributions in architecture and the fine arts will be welcome where
relevant to the wider understanding of revivalism in a particular period or
region.





Topics and approaches relevant to the theme may include:



National Romantic styles and the material culture of “imagined communities”

Revivalist tendencies within Modernism (e.g. “Biedermeier revival”)

The Neo-Baroque, the “Folk Baroque,” and Art Deco in Central Europe

Folk and vernacular revivals

Commemoration and revivalism

Post Modernism and revival styles across the iron curtain

Institutionalizing revivals: exhibitions, festivals, museums, and museology

Historiography, revivalism, and changing attitudes to the past
















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Karla Huebner
calypsospots AT gmail.com

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