Allyson Drucker, a correspondent for the Art History Newsletter, has reviewed two Thursday sessions: “Renaissance and/or Early Modern: Naming and/or Knowing the Past” and “Eighteenth-Century Art, Decorative Arts, and Architecture: Shattering the Nineteenth-Century Image of the Eighteenth Century.” I look forward to reading a few more posts from the art-history website, run by Jonathan Lackman of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, who has covered the past few CAA conferences.
CAA News
Encouraged by the warm climate and the postmodern architecture in Los Angeles, conference organizers have recently decided that the 2010 CAA annual conference will be in Dubai, and they’re are already hard at work at next year’s sessions. Here are some samples of panels that have already been accepted:
The Merleau-Ponty effect in high modernism: Greenberg and Fried’s secret love affair with phenomenology in the underground café culture of 1950s Manhattan. (or, “Was that really Clement Greenberg in that photo of a Happening at the Franklin Furnace?”)
A Paradigmatic Paradigm shift; from Diderot to Baudrillard and back again in seconds on Second Life (this panel will be presented as a webcast only, streaming live from the book fair)
Hands off my object fetish: touching the curve, stroking the brush, and redefining the tactile in the realm of supraphysicality.
Dismantling Discursivity in the 21st Century: Sanctioning the myopia of an iconographic taxonomy of signs and analogons (signalagons) in pictorial representation.
Impacted Colon: The Role of Paper Titles in Signaling Political Affiliation, Disciplinary Adherence, and Career Aspiration.
Untouching Site/Sight: privileging smell, dissembling the somatic, and recannonizing the metasenses.
This post was co-written yesterday by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
We find it both disconcerting and wonderful to see so many of our own kind here at CAA. The artists and art historians were out in force this morning – groggy and in search of coffee. Somehow the Starbucks in West Hall was dark, while what felt like half a city away – at the other end of the convention center — there was a Starbucks adjacent to the Lawn Care convention. Why this should be, no one seemed to know. But we all managed to find our way, coffee in hand, to the first sessions. (more…)
I’d like to take this opportunities to introduce the six conference bloggers for Los Angeles: Katie Anania, a graduate student in art history at the University of Texas at Austin; Beth Harris, director of digital learning at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Micol Hebron, a California-based video and performance artist and an assistant professor of art at Chapman University; Benjamin Lima, a doctoral student at Yale University; Ed Schad, a Los Angeles–based writer and a curatorial associate for the Broad Art Foundation; and Steven Zucker, dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.
You can check out their full profiles on the 2009 Blogger Biographies page.
