Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:12:17 -0500
From: "Mario A. Caro" <ario-AT-uhura.cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: CFP Image and Text



				        Call for Papers					             

	        Image and Text:  American Creativity and the 	    
	   Relationship Between Writing and The Visual Arts
				    January 21 - 22, 2000

The Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art and the departments of Art and Design,
English, Performing Arts, and Philosophy at Wichita State University invite
submissions for a conference  dealing with the rich exchange of ideas
between the written word and the visual arts, specifically the manner in
which American writers and artists have explored this relationship.  The
parameters of the conference are purposely broad to encourage a variety of
submissions investigating diverse time periods, ideologies, methodologies,
personalities, and media.   Participants in disciplines such as American
Studies, Art History, English and Literature, History, Philosophy, and
Theater History are encouraged to send submissions.  

 Image and Text will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition, The
Grand Moving Panorama:  Pilgrim's Progress of 1851, a travelling exhibition
sponsored by the Montclair Art Museum in Montclair, New Jersey.  The
nineteenth-century panorama visually recreates John Bunyan's
seventeenth-century Christian allegory through a sequence of painted
scenes, inspired by some of the most notable nineteenth-century American
artists, such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Edwin Church, and Jasper Cropsey.
The conference will have two guest speakers:  Charles Eldredge, Hall
Distinguished Professor of American Art at the University of Kansas, who
will speak on the relationship between nineteenth century American art and
literature, and 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winner Mark Strand, poet and writer,
who will discuss his recent work on Edward Hopper.

While the exhibition focuses on the influence of British literature on
nineteenth-century American art, the conference may include a range of
topics, provided the presentation possesses an American context.  Proposals
may address any number of topics, for example:

The Harlem Renaissance
Text and Illustration
Realism in Literature and Art
American Poets and American Painting
Photojournalism in the United States
Minimalist Artists and Their Writings
The Hudson River School and Transcendentalism
Existentialist Thought and Theater and Abstract Expressionism

One-page abstracts for individual papers should be approximately 250 words
in length and include name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address (if
possible).  Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes.  

Abstracts should be mailed to Mark White, Curator of Exhibitions, Edwin A.
Ulrich Museum of Art, 129 McKnight Art Center East, Wichita State
University, Wichita, KS 67260-0046 or e-mailed to
mwhite-AT-twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu.  Deadline for submissions:  Friday, October 15,
1999.