Chicago, CAA Annual Conference, February 12 - 15, 2014
Deadline: May 6, 2013
Objectifying Prints: Hybrid Media 1450-1800
Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Art Institute of Chicago; and Edward Wouk,
University of Manchester. Email: skarrschmidt@artic.edu and
edward.wouk@manchester.ac.uk.
Printed artworks were often by nature ephemeral, but in early modern
Europe, they commingled with other media, setting off chain reactions
of related imagery that endured. Paintings, sculpture, decorative arts,
musical or scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own
influence on prints, while prints provided artists with paper veneers,
templates, and sources of adaptable images. This interdisciplinary
session analyzes the effect of prints on more traditionally valued
objects, and vice-versa. Repeat iterations across conventional
geographic, temporal, and material boundaries lead to a new kind of
objectification in which original “meanings” were lost, reconfigured,
or subverted in surprising ways. Prints–reproducible products of
hybridity and collaboration–were singularly disposed to unleashing
transformations. This session is not primarily concerned with copying
or copyright, but rather with the fluid redefinition and re-purposing
of original designs and ideas permitted by prints’ pervasive
availability. Papers exploring collaborations between multiple
workshops combining printing and other media are welcome.
For further information and application procedure, see:
http://www.collegeart.org/
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