Call for Papers
Sculpture and Display
(Deadline: July 1 2006)
This two-day international conference (planned for spring 2007) aims to
bring together academics, curators, architects, artists, designers and
museum professionals to discuss the role of sculpture and its display in
the museum and gallery. It aims to look above all at the reasons behind
the choices of particular works and their placement; identifying and
exploring the programmatic statements of power, prestige and symbolic
value which sculpture has been used to signpost over recent centuries.
We welcome proposals for papers from the Renaissance to the present,
from early galleries and cast courts, to contemporary interventions and
installations. We are looking at the relationship between sculpture and
its public position, primarily inside the building rather than out, and
will consider a broad range of definitions of 'gallery' and indeed of
'sculpture'. How does sculpture signal an institution's (or an
individual's) public aspirations; how does it denote culture, learning
or modernity? How does sculpture affirm or challenge an established
reputation? What kind of comparisons can be drawn between sculpture
displays in art museums and galleries and those in other types of museums?
Please submit abstracts (of no more than 500 words) together with a
brief biographical outline by email to Ellen Tait by email
([log in to unmask]) or by post to: Henry Moore Institute, 74 The
Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH by July 1 2006. (This conference has been
developed in tandem with the Fellowship held at the Institute by Dr
Christopher Marshall of the University of Melbourne who will work with
us in developing its content.)
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