CALL. 06.08.2018: Ancient Sculpture in Context 2: Reception (Panel at CAA 107th Annual Conference) -
Below please find the details for a session that we are chairing at the annual College Art Association meeting that will be held in New York City from February 13-16, 2019.
FECHA LÍMITE/DEADLINE/SCADENZA: 06/08/2018
FECHA CONGRESO/CONGRESS DATE/DATA CONGRESSO: 13-14-15-16/02/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: New York Hilton Midtown, (New York, NY, USA)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta (New York University) Peter D De Staebler (Pratt Institute). CAA 107th Annual Conference.
CALL:
Some of the most celebrated sculptures from antiquity, such as the infamous Fonseca Bust, come to us “ungrounded” (Marlow 2013), with no secure provenience and lacking meaningful parameters for interpretation beyond academic discussions of style, date, workmanship, or identification. Building on a thought-provoking discussion held at CAA in 2017 (“Ancient Sculpture in Context”), this session will continue to direct vital attention toward the analysis of Greek and Roman sculpture with known find-spots, investigating how a secure archaeological origin can influence modern interpretations. This year, we seek to expand the discourse to include a wider range of chronological periods and associated methods by focusing on the later reception of ancient sculpture. Through this, we endeavor to assess how contextualization can shift over time and how these realizations can illuminate and transform our understanding of the social, historical, and economic values of ancient sculpture. This session will strive to update and redefine how we employ the facts surrounding ancient sculpture in light of current and rapidly changing views on archaeological methods, looting, and connoisseurship. Our hope is that these topics will, in turn, influence the ways that we approach teaching, research, and publication. We solicit discussions of the reception of freestanding and architectural sculpture from both original and re-use display contexts. Proposals with inter- and multidisciplinary approaches are especially welcome, and we encourage topics that apply innovative theoretical perspectives to the interpretation of ancient sculpture and its antique and post-antique reception.