Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 02:14:06 -0500 (EST)
Subject: call for papers 



From: A. LAPP <finala-AT-ARTS-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK>

i would be very grateful, if you could circulate the following call
for papers:

Figuration/Abstraction: Strategies for Public Sculpture in Europe
1945-1968

The Henry Moore Institute plans to hold an international conference
in Leeds in November 1999. The conference will explore the public
sculpture which emerged in Europe in the period of post-war
reconstruction and thereafter, and will focus on the similarities as
much as the differences between East and West. - The hierarchies
which, more or less explicitly, governed the production of public
sculpture and which can be discerned through an examination of such
topoi as sites (national/international/local/municipal/educational/
welfare/ landscape etc), styles, exhibitions, institutions
(governmental/non-governmental), patrons, and reception (by the public
and the press, It is expected that papers (whether theoretical, survey
or case-study in character) will address one or more of the following
issues: strategies of consultation and the language of criticism). -
The strategies developed for the different political regimes which
emerged in the early post-war years, based on a consideration of the
continuities/discontinuities between pre- and post-war practice,
responses to the issue of =91collaboration=92 and so on. - The transitions
(physical or metaphorical) effected by sculptors who changed country
or style according to political pressure or aesthetic imperative, and
their significance for ways of making public sculpture.

Abstracts (of no more than 500 words) should be submitted to Penelope
Curtis, Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds  LS1 3AA, United
Kingdom, Tel: 0113 2469469, Fax:  0113 2461481, by the end of January
1999.

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axel lapp
university of leeds


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