Submission deadline: October 15, 2010
Is Returning to the Past Modern?
Symposium for Emerging Scholars
January 5, 2011, 1 pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York City
http://www.guggenheim.org
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936Chaos and ClassicismChaos and Classicism traces the artistic movement, following the trauma of World War I, toward figuration, clean lines, and modeled form, and away from the two-dimensional abstracted spaces, fragmented compositions, and splintered bodies that characterized the early-20th-century avant-garde. The exhibition charts how this interwar aesthetic worked its way from a poetic, mythic idea in Parisian circles to a political, historical idea of a revived Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini to a neo-Platonic High Modernism at the Bauhaus, and finally, to the chilling aesthetic of nascent Nazi culture.
The Sackler Center for Arts Education seeks proposals for innovative scholarship situated in the period between the world wars; however, papers may address any geographic or cultural region, including but not limited to Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Australia. Topics exploring a range of mediums, including film, photography, design, architecture, fashion, painting, sculpture, printmaking, books, and textiles are encouraged.
TO SUBMIT
Please submit an abstract of 150 words in English and curriculum vitae with complete e-mail, phone, and mailing address by Friday, October 15, 2010, to [email protected] Final papers will be delivered in English.
Modest stipends are available to accepted participants.
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