Call for Papers: Art, Anxiety, and Protest in the Edwardian Belle Époque Graduate Student Symposium Deadline: Jan 7, 2013 Yale Center for British Art New Haven, Connecticut, March 02, 2013 britishart.yale.edu “The belle époque, the long summer garden party of the Edwardian afternoon, when there was a lightness in the air, when “the fruit was … Continue reading
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Conference: Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues
Fashion: Exploring Critical Issues 3rd Global Conference Thursday 22nd September – Sunday 25th September 2011 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Fashion is a statement, a stylised form of expression which displays and begins to define a person, a place, a class, a time, a religion, a culture, and even a nation. This interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary … Continue reading
The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900
This is the first major exhibition to comprehensively explore Aestheticism, an extraordinary artistic movement which sought to escape the ugliness and materialism of the Victorian era by creating a new kind of art and beauty. The well spring of the ‘new art’ movements of the late 19th century, Aestheticism is now acknowledged for its revolutionary … Continue reading
1st Annual International Conference on Fine and Performing Arts
7-10 June 2010 ATHENS, GREECE The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 1st Annual International Conference on Fine Arts in Athens, Greece, 7-10 June 2010. The conference website is: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Arts.htm The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Fine Arts (such as Animation, … Continue reading
Materials of Persuasion – Graduate Student Symposium
Materials of Persuasion, Graduate Student Symposium Bard Graduate Center 38 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 April 23, 2010 Critics passing judgment, clergy seeking converts, advertisers selling products, and politicians running for office are all in the persuasion business. Persuasion is the key to the art of rhetoric, but there has always been a … Continue reading
CFP: UCL Autopsies Project Study Day: “Yesterday’s Objects”
‘Yesterday’s Objects: The Death and Afterlife of Everyday Things’ Autopsies Research Project Study Day Friday, 4 June 2010 University College London (UCL) The Autopsies Project explores how objects die. Just as the twentieth century was transformed by the advent of new forms of media – the typewriter, gramophone, and film, for example – the arrival … Continue reading
Personality Cults of Modern Dictators
Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, UK 22-23 October 2010 Submit offers of papers by 1 June 2010 Almost all modern dictators are the subject of personality cults that are highly organised even if they often also rest on spontaneous contributions. By creating a narrative of exceptionality around an individual they harness … Continue reading
CFP: “Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance”
CALL FOR PAPERS for the Spring 2010 Issue of “Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance” Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-03-31 (in 5 days) Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance, published by Tel-Aviv University and the Gordon Craig Society for Theatre Research, is a semi-annual scholarly, peer-reviewed, electronic and open-access journal, devoted … Continue reading
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
May 5, 2010–August 15, 2010 Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor Learn more about a two-day symposium hosted by the Brooklyn Museum and The Costume Institute at the Met. American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn exclusively from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at … Continue reading
Upcoming Exhibitions
The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity May 5, 2010–August 15, 2010 Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor Museum at FIT, NYC Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague Netherlands Voici Paris: Haute Couture Will run until 6th June 2010 Continue reading
Object of Fashion 