-------------------------------- 34th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium VIOLENT VISIONS CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE: Jan. 1, 1999 (postmark) For the 1999 UCLA Art History Graduate Student Symposium, we solicit papers dealing with the theme of violence in visual culture. Graduate students from all fields, within and outside of, art history are encouraged to engage in considerations of how violence has been represented, how violent events have influenced art's production, and/or how art itself may be a sort of violence. Informed by, but not limited to, a model of physical brutality, we conceive of violence as a powerful social discourse which, when enacted, is a display of power, and when invisible, is yet a psychically palpable expression of dominance. Considering violence in art historical scholarship may thus bring up disparate images: from Classic Mayan depictions of human sacrifice, to Robert Smithson's _Spiral Jetty_ with its affront to the natural landscape, to Robert Mappelthorpe's sado-masochistic images both depicting and committing assault simultaneously. Both art and violence seem to arise from beyond the reason of logic, but yet squarely within "human nature." As the two meet, we expect a culturally volatile display of power dominance, terror, and the ways in which these are made and unmade, exposed and concealed. Abstracts should not exceed one typed page in length, be accompanied by a preliminary biography, and be postmarked no later than January 1, 1999. Semi-finalists will be notified no later than January 15. Final panelists, selected on the basis of full-length papers, will receive formal invitation on or around February 1 to visit the UCLA campus for the two-day event, April 16-17. Some funding will be available for travel. Proposals or inquiries should be directed to: VIOLENT VISIONS University of California, Los Angeles Department of Art History Box 951417 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 Tel (310) 206-6905 Fax (310) 206-1903 (Sponsored by the UCLA Art History Graduate Student Association) --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- Donald Larsson Minnesota State U, Mankato [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite