CFP: VISUAL ARTS IN THE WEST
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHWEST / TEXAS POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION &
AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION February 9-12, 2005, Hyatt Regency Hotel,
Albuquerque, New Mexico (330 Tijeras Ave. NW / 505-842-1234) For more
information, contact the area chair and / or visit the organizations' web
site: www.h-net.org/~swpca
Deadline for proposals: Nov. 15, 2004
Deadline for registering for conference (required of all participants and
attendees): Dec. 31, 2004
To register, visit the SW/Texas PCA/ACA website for the needed information.
Various discounts for air travel, hotel rooms, etc. may be available to
members, participants, and graduate students. For more information, visit
the web site above.
Papers should be approximately 20-25 minutes long and should be original
works of scholarship that have not been presented or published elsewhere.
Proposals should be no longer than 500 words / 2 double-spaced typed pages
and should be accompanied by a cv. Please include contact information
(address, telephone, e-mail) that will be valid for the academic year. Days
and times of sessions are to be determined.
Papers should be about painting, drawing, other graphic media, popular
visual arts, sculpture, mixed media works and installations, and digital
media created in the West, by artists from the West and / or living in the
West, and dealing with subjects and themes of the West. The variety of
topics and themes is considerable and may include but is not limited to:
* topographical landscape illustration produced during early explorations *
the classic painters of the West- George Catlin, Thomas Moran, Frederic
Remington and Charles Russell * California Impressionism * the Taos artist
colony and early painters in New Mexico * painting in the Pacific
Northwest-Clyfford Still, Mark Tobey, * painting in Alaska and Western
Canada * perceptions and attitudes toward the West / the uniqueness of the
Western terrain and people * Manifest Destiny and the West / politics and
art of the West * depictions of women, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans
in Western art * depictions of frontier life * Regionalist painting of the
1930s in the Southwest, California, and Texas- Millard Sheets, Jerry
Bywaters, Joe Jones, Alexander Hogue * women artists from the West * Native
American artists from the West * Mexican-American artists from the West *
artists visiting from the East and how their visits influences their careers
* depictions of the West by foreign artists and how their perspectives of
the West are different * how do different ethnic, racial, and socio-economic
groups visualize the West * ecology and environmentalism in Western art *
portraiture in the West / depictions of famous Westerners * early modernists
who painted the Western landscape * modern and abstract art in the
West-Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Raymond Jonson, Lawren Harris, Georgia
O'Keeffe, Josef Bakos, Agnes Pelton, Jackson Pollock, Clay Spohn, Clyfford
Still, Richard Diebenkorn, Agnes Martin * depictions of the urbanized and
suburbanized West * Earth Art-Robert Smithson and Walter de Maria * public
art and memorials in and about the West * recent trends, developments,
styles and new media as they have developed in the West
Proposals should be sent to
Herbert R. Hartel, Jr., Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
899 Tenth Ave.
New York, NY 10019
Dept. of Art, Music, and Philosophy / Room 325
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