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Call for Papers: Writing Irish Art History, TRIARC, Trinity College Dublin
TRIARC, Trinity College Dublin
20 November 2010
The aim of this student-led research day is to highlight current scholarship on the historiography of Irish art, architecture and material culture.
Keynote presentations:
Professor Tom Dunne, U.C.C.
Dr Roisin Kennedy, U.C.D.
Sessions will be convened under the following headings: Medieval, Early Modern, 19th Century and Modern & Contemporary.
We welcome proposals from researchers working in a broad range of areas, including painting, sculpture, architecture, material culture, design, film, literature, cultural geography and print cultures.
Themes might include (but are not limited to):
- interpretation of Irish art, architecture or material culture
- criticism and the arts
- audiences and criticism – popular criticism/academic criticism
- literary culture and the arts
- canons of art, architecture or material culture
- resassessing key texts in Irish art history
- the role of institutions in historiography
- The significance of the artist’s statement in writing art history
We welcome proposals for 15 minute papers.
The deadline for submissions is 19 July 2010.
Proposals of c.250 words to writingirisharthistory@gmail.com or to Caroline McGee and Niamh NicGhabhann, TRIARC - Trinity Irish Art Research Centre, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Provost's House Stables, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2.
http://writingirisharthistory.blogspot.com
Writing Irish Art History is supported by:
TRIARC: the Irish Art Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin
Four Courts Press, 7 Malpas Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.