[artinfo] Fwd: [spectre] CFP: In Search of the Former East in the Former West (Boston, 21-23 Mar 13)

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> From: Andreas Broeckmann <broeckmann at leuphana.de>
> Date: September 17, 2012 4:14:47 PM GMT+02:00
> To: spec <spectre at mikrolisten.de>
> Subject: [spectre] CFP: In Search of the Former East in the Former West (Boston, 21-23 Mar 13)
> Reply-To: broeckmann at leuphana.de
> 
> From: Corina L. Apostol <capostol at eden.rutgers.edu>
> Date: Sep 17, 2012
> Subject: CFP: In Search of the Former East in the Former West (Boston, 21-23 Mar 13)
> 
> Boston, Massachusetts, Tufts University, March 21 - 23, 2013
> Deadline: Sep 30, 2012
> 
> Northeast Modern Language Association Convention 2013
> Call for Papers for the panel on
> In Search of the Former East in the Former West
> 
> Chair: Corina L. Apostol, Ph.D student, Art History Department, Rutgers
> University
> 
> In the past two decades, artists from Eastern Europe and Russia have
> been discovered and rediscovered in the West many times over. To this
> date, there have been over 25 major group exhibitions mounted on the
> topic of art from these regions before 1989, while many more books,
> articles, reviews have been published and significant conferences
> organized. Moreover, artists from these regions have entered in the
> collections of major museums in the West. From Berlin to Chicago, from
> Paris to New York, there seems to be a boundless interest on the part
> of scholars working in the Western cannon of art history to present
> eastern art production before the fall of the Iron Curtain - and thus
> come to terms with their former Other. By now, this series of grand,
> ambitious projects amounts to more than just a way for the West to
> satisfy the need for covering this so-called "uncharted territory" or
> the desire for the new in contemporary art. The diversity in strategies
> on how to approach these regions attests to a lingering anxiety on both
> sides on how to re-define the former East. These enunciations are
> important both from a geo-political perspective, manifested through
> art, and a historical one - which parts of Cold War history still need
> to be re-considered and re-written? This panel invites a thoughtful
> dialogue on the re-presentations of Eastern European and Russian art
> through curatorial and scholarly investigations mounted outside the
> realities in which it is grounded. According to which criteria, or
> whose criteria are these (art)histories constructed and to what ends?
> And what implications do these gestures have for the West to
> rearticulate itself as the "former West"?
> 
> Please send inquiries or 250-500 word abstracts (preferably in MS Word
> or PDF) to Corina L. Apostol, capostol at eden.rutgers.edu
> 
> About NeMLA: http://nemla.org/convention/2013/
> 
> Reference / Quellennachweis:
> CFP: In Search of the Former East in the Former West (Boston, 21-23 Mar 13). In: H-ArtHist, Sep 17, 2012. <http://arthist.net/archive/3834>.
> 
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