CFP: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century (for CAA 2017)

Dear Colleagues,
I'm passing along this Call for Papers for the next CAA on a theme that
seems well suited to anyone in SHERA working on the 19th century.
Best regards,
Margaret
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Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA)

*Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Long Nineteenth Century*

Chair: Ruth E. Iskin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Email:
[email protected]

One of the reasons Charles Baudelaire chose Constantin Guys to represent
the painter of modern life was that in his view Guys was “a man of the
world,” who “wants to know, understand and appreciate everything that
happens on the surface of the globe,” and thus he defined him as a
“spiritual citizen of the universe.” Baudelaire’s insight notwithstanding,
the notions of modernity developed in art history have been tied to
metropolitan centers, even though the nineteenth century was very much a
period of mobility, travel, and cross-cultural encounters: Guys, for
example, traveled as a visual reporter to send illustrations documenting
the Crimean war to the Western press; universal expositions displayed the
art, culture and industry of nations from around the globe; artists and
collectors traveled abroad -- Americans to Paris, Europeans to Asia, and
visitors from many regions around the globe travelled to the international
expositions in Europe and America. In addition, photographic and film
companies sent representatives all over the world to take photographs and
to film in numerous regions including, for example, the Middle East. This
session proposes to broaden the formation of modernity in art and visual
culture of the long nineteenth century by focusing on the significance of
cross-cultural encounters, spanning painting, sculpture, photography, early
film, illustration, exhibitions, and collecting. It asks, to what extent we
can re-envision nineteenth-century modernity by positioning cross-cultural
exchanges in art and visual and material culture as central to modernity.

*Potential Subject Area: *Art History-Nineteenth-century Art

*Please send by August 30, 2016: *

1.        Paper abstract (250 word max) double-spaced.

2.        Completed session participation form. (Located at the end of
the *2017
Call for Participation* pdf document) http://www.collegeart.org/news
/category/calls-for-papers

3.         Letter of interest explaining expertise; you CAA membership
status, including membership number.

4.        A 3 page max CV with list of publications.

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