Call for Papers
Bringing It Back: Design and Revivals
The Twenty-First Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium
on the Decorative Arts and Design
Parsons The New School for Design, New York.
April 13 and 14, 2012.
All design engages with the past, even if only to deny it, but many
movements in design and decorative arts history are founded on conscious
revivals of the past. Whether Egyptian, Greek, Gothic, Renaissance,
Baroque, Rococo, Colonial, or Modernist, revivals can look back just a
few decades or millennia. Revivals can be soberly archaeological or
promote a historical fantasy. Some revivalist movements are primarily
stylistic, while, for others, idealized notions of history are invested
with social, political or moral meaning in the present.
This symposium seeks papers, from students all fields, that look at
aspects of particular revivalist movements in the history of the
decorative arts and design or at revivalism in general. We are
interested in proposals that discuss form and style as well as proposals
that examine design’s role as a cultural metaphor and as a mediator of
sociopolitical perspectives.
Thomas Denenberg, Director of Shelburne Museum, and a scholar of the
retrospective culture of New England, will be the symposium’s Catherine
Hoover Voorsanger Keynote speaker.
To submit a proposal, send a two-page abstract, one-page bibliography
and a c.v. to:
Dr. Ethan Robey
Associate Director, MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts &
Design
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Deadline: January 30, 2012
Sponsored by the MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts & Design
offered jointly by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Parsons The
New School for Design
David Brody, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Design Studies
Parsons The New School for Design
The New School
Director, MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design
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