Bibliographical Society of America session
College Art Association Annual Conference
New York City, February 10 – 13 2021
Call for Papers
Bibliographical Society of America sponsored session
College Art Association Annual Conference
New York City, 10-13 February 2021:
The Print in the Codex ca. 1500 to 1900
This
session will consider bound volumes created or transformed through the
incorporation of independently printed images. Inspired by recent scholarship
that addresses the popularity of modifying, enhancing, or creating books in
this manner, this session will focus on the production and reception of such
books between the widespread adoption of the printing press in Europe, circa
1500, and the nineteenth-century rise of public museums and libraries, with their
increasingly standardized and discrete organizational systems. Papers may address
any books into which independently printed images have been incorporated,
whether these books include text and whether they are analyzed as unique items
or as products of broader creative or curatorial practices. This session seeks
papers that consider both the material and the conceptual aspects of these
complex volumes. Themes may include the agendas of specific creators; the codex
as a structure and ways in which prints were designed for, or adapted to it; or
how these works inform histories of reading, book and print production, or book
and print collection. Papers may also address how these books relate to those of
earlier centuries. Themes addressing subsequent reception are also welcome. Such
themes include interpretive and practical challenges that the books present,
and opportunities they offer, to the evolving institutional and media
landscapes of the twenty-first century.
In light of the CAA’s recent decision to hold online sessions during CAA 2021, permitting participation by those who cannot make it to NYC, the deadline for paper proposals for this session has been revised. Please send proposals, including title, abstract (250 words) and CV by Wednesday 16 September 2020 to: Jeanne-Marie Musto, Program Committee, Bibliographical Society of America, at [log in to unmask]
NB: CAA membership is not required to submit a paper proposal, but is required once proposals are accepted. For more information concerning participation in the CAA 2021 conference, see: http://www.collegeart.org/programs/conference/proposals.
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