Smithsonian-Mason Field School at University of Glasgow Summer 2013

Smithsonian-Mason Field School at University of Glasgow Summer 2013

Location: Scotland
Summer Course I Begins: 06-24-2013
Summer Course II Begins: 07-05-2013

UNIQUE GRADUATE SUMMER FIELD SCHOOL - HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ARTS - AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
OPEN TO ALL WITH AN UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE*

*Participants are not required to be currently enrolled in a graduate program.


Join the Smithsonian-George Mason University MA in the History of Decorative Arts program for graduate-level courses led by curators and specialists active in the research, preservation, and conservation of Scotland’s artistic and cultural heritage.
I. “Gothic to Gothic Revival" (June 24-July 5): Delve deeply into the study of Gothic architecture, decoration, and design during the Middle Ages and the Gothic revival in the 18th-19th centuries. The course includes lectures by experts, as well as tours to museums and cultural sites in Glasgow and the Scottish countryside. Dr. Debra Strickland, University of Glasgow.
II. "Treasure Houses of Scotland" (July 8-19): Explore the architecture and social history of Scotland's 18th- and 19th-century homes. Particular attention will be paid to the planning, descriptive treatment and use of the interiors including furniture, ceramics, silver, textiles and other decorative arts. Dr. Hilary Macartney, University of Glasgow.
The itinerary will be varied and stimulating--with lectures, visits, study sessions, architectural tours and films. Participants will be housed in University accommodations, have access to the University Library for research, and earn graduate credits through George Mason University.
Tuition: $4,700 (includes 13 nights' housing in modern student accommodation near campus—single room with private bath). For more information, please visit the Smithsonian-Mason MA in the History of Decorative Arts website (http://hda.gmu.edu/glasgow) or contact:

Cynthia Williams, Director
Smithsonian-Mason MA in the History of Decorative Arts
Phone: 202-633-8651
Fax: 202-357-3715
Email: cwilli21@gmu.edu<mailto:cwilli21@gmu.edu>

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Call for Papers: UC Riverside "Repetition"

Repetition
Second Annual Art History Graduate Student Conference
University of California, Riverside
May 18, 2013

Repetition, as both logic and device, has played a significant role in the history of art. As logic, repetition underlies the very possibility of artworks as meaningful objects, as it is through repeated acquaintance with an object or form that it gains meaning in a prescribed context. And as stylistic device, the use of repetition has transcended historical periods and visual cultures. From prehistory to the present, the repetition of forms and objects has been used by practically all cultures as a way to define common identities, establish order, and inscribe sense and meaning into the world. The use of repeated forms stands at the center of, for instance, practices and objects as distinct as Inca tunic design, Buddhist and Hindu mandalas, Outsider art and 1960s Minimalism. Yet repetition was also part of painterly strategies in the Renaissance and Baroque periods and pervades the concepts of Early Modern print culture as well as sculptural practices. These various examples serve to highlight our expanded approach to the idea of repetition as an integral aspect of a series of diverse practices, including pattern design, seriality, doubling, mirroring, symmetry, recursion, copying and reproducibility.

Moreover, the significance of repetition extends to the present moment as the concept has occupied an important place in the theorizing of modern existence—as commodity or behavior, for instance. More specifically within the visual arts, the advent of photography in the mid-19th century has led thinkers to theorize the effects of the repeated and repeatable image in modern life, often with inconclusive or contradictory results. While Benjamin argued in 1936 that, “the technology of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition,” making a case for the revolutionary potential of the technology of photography, Adorno and Horkheimer contended some years later that in contemporary existence, “what is new is that the irreconcilable elements of culture, art and distraction are subordinated to one end and subsumed under one false formula: the totality of the culture industry. It consists of repetition.”

We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for papers dealing with the intersection of art and repetition in any of its forms. Topics from all art historical periods and geographical regions are encouraged, in particular those dealing with the significance of repetition as an artistic and critical strategy in early modern, modern and contemporary art.

Please e-mail abstracts to ahgsa.ucr@gmail.com by March 15. The conference will be held at the California Museum of Photography in Downtown Riverside on May 18, 2013.

March Bonanza of Poetry

The FELIX Series of New Writing invites you to its March bonanza of poetry. Below are event details, short bios of the poets, and more information about the FELIX Series. We are thrilled about these poets and the readings, and hope to see you there. Pass the word along to students and friends.

A Reading by Srikanth Reddy
Thursday, March 7, 7:00pm
7191 Helen C. White Hall
on the UW-Madison Campus

A Reading by John Yau
Thursday, March 14, 8:00pm
Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
426 W. Gilman Street

A Reading by Ari Banias and Amy Quan Barry
Saturday, March 16, 7:00pm
Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative
426 W. Gilman Street

Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry--"Facts for Visitors" (2004) and "Voyager" (2011)--both published by the University of California Press, and a book-length literary collaboration with the poet Dan Beachy-Quick, titled "Conversities" (1913 Press, 2011).  Reddy's critical study, "Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry," was published by Oxford University Press in 2011 as well.  He has received fellowships from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others.  A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago.

John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, critic, publisher of Black Square Editions, and freelance curator. His recent books include A Thing Among Things: The Art of JasperJohns (D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2008) and Further Adventures inMonochrome (Copper Canyon Press, 2012). His reviews have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Bookforum, and the Los Angeles Times. He was the Arts Editor for the Brooklyn Rail (2006-2011). In January 2012, he started the online magazine, Hyperallergic Weekend, with three other writers.

Ari Banias is the author of a chapbook, What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2012). The recipient of fellowships from NYFA, The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he is currently the Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in Subtropics, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast,Evening Will Come, and elsewhere. He has worked as a used bookseller for over a decade. 

Quan Barry is the author of three books published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (Asylum, Controvertibles, and Water Puppets), and her work has appeared in such journals as the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, Ms., and the New Yorker. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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FELIX: A Series of New Writing is dedicated to providing an audience in Madison, Wisconsin for new writing and experimental literary events. Founded in 2003, the series has been committed to showcasing the work of writers and editors involved in small or independent presses. In 2012, this mission was expanded to highlight our interest in new and innovative work by writers who experiment with publishing, genre, performance, new media and technology, and the boundaries between the arts and between disciplines. The FELIX series aims to create dynamic literary events for the university and larger Madison literary community.

The series is named after Felix Pollak, a poet and longtime UW-Madison librarian with a special love for and dedication to small literary magazines. From 1959 to 1974, Pollack worked as a curator of rare books here at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and took responsibility for developing the Sukov collection (now known as the Little Magazine Collection), one of the nation’s finest collections of small literary magazines, many of which were published by independent presses.

Faculty News

Prof. Anna Andrzejewski will be part of the NEH Workshop, "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School in the Midwest," to be held in Mason City, Iowa, this July and August. Prof. Andrzejewski will be one of the Instructors of this week-long workshop for High School teachers, and will be speaking on Wright's Midwestern work (and that of his followers) as well as giving lectures on the Arts and Crafts movement and participating in field tours.