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CAA 106th Annual Conference, New York, February 21-24, 2018
LA Convention Center
February 21–24, 2018
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Wednesday
02/21/2018
8:30am
“Against Algorithms (Or the Arts of Resistance in the Age of Quantification)”
Room 409A
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part I”
Room 503
“Framing the Struggle: Early Twentieth-Century Women Modernists”
Room 501C
“International Abstraction after World War II: The US, France, Germany, and Beyond”
Room 410
“Materials and Techniques in the Cultural Sphere”
Room 409B
“Now You See It, Now You Don’t: Materialism and Ephemeral Prints” (Association of Print Scholars APS)
Room 406B
“Performing Authenticity”
Room 505
“Sport, Fitness, and Wellbeing in Art History”
Room 404B
“Theorizing Drawing: The Gap between Historical Accounts and Studio Practice”
Room 406A
“Urban Interventions in Postwar California”
Room 403B
“Utopianism and Dystopianism in Soviet and Eastern European Art” (Society of Historians of East European Eurasian and Russian Art and Architecture SHERA)
Room 501A
10:30am
“Ambivalences and Appropriations: Some American Artists”
Room 501C
“Changing Interactions: Japanese Artists and the West Coast, Part II”
Room 503
“LA/LX: Queer and Latinx in Los Angeles” (Queer Caucus for Art QCA)
Room 403B
“No Experiments: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949–89”
Room 410
“Regionalism in the Global Era”
Room 405
“Socialist Realism Reconsidered: New Readings of Russian Cultural Policy 1920–1930s”
Room 501A
2:00PM
“‘Processi Italiani’: Examining Process in Postwar Italian Art, 1945–80” (Italian Art Society IAS)
Room 410
“Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism, Part I”
Room 501A
“Locating LeWitt: Issues of Site, Space, and Movement”
Room 409A
“Museums, Access, and the Ethics of Care”
Room 404B
“Performance, Voice, and Embodiment: Ventriloquism in Contemporary Art”
Room 505
“Reconsidering Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA”
Room 403B
“The Right to Unmake”
Room 406A
“The Virtual Asian American Art Museum: Postwar Japanese American Art in Chicago” (Diasporic Asian Art Network DAAN)
Room 503
4:00PM
“Exhibition as Evidence and Postwar International Avant-Gardes”
Room 501C
“From the Globe to the Cosmos: Entangled Perspectives on the Question of Global Art and World Art”
Room 405
“Global Placemaking”
Room 409B
“Group Encounters: Rethinking the Social in and through Performance”
Room 505
“Imagining Constructivism’s Constellations: Alternative Histories of Cold War Cultural Production”
Room 501A
“New Approaches to Contemporary Asian Art”
Room 410
“Objects of Change? Art, Liberalism, and Reform across the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
Room 501B
“The Poetics and Politics of “Anonymous” Contemporary Craft”
Room 408B
Thursday
02/22/2018
8:30am
“Borders and Breakthroughs: The Afterlife of PST LA/LA, Part I”
Room 403B
“British Abstraction after World War II”
Room 407
“How Many Ways to Miss the Mark? Lucio Fontana between Formalism and Historicity “
Room 409A
“New Horizons: Contemporary Pacific Arts, Digital Archives, and Colonial Boundaries” (Pacific Arts Association PAA)
Room 406B
“Projecting the Body: Beyond the Ocular”
Room 501A
“The Image of the American Indian in Nineteenth-Century Britain: New Critical Perspectives” (Historians of British Art HBA)
Room 506
10:30am
“(Un)Common Intent: Performance Scores as Contractual Exchange”
Room 501A
“Collaborating with Communities”
Room 405
“Curating Difference: Race and Ethnicity in the US Museum” (Association for Critical Race Art History ACRAH)
Room 408A
“From Nirvana to Catastrophe: Matsuzawa Yutaka and his “Commune in Imaginary Space””
Room 501B
“International Art Exhibitions of the 1980s: The Festivals of India”
Room 402A
“Photographing Disappearance”
Room 410
“Picturing Property: Real Estate in American Visual Culture, 1840–1920”
Room 506
“Pop Art and Class, Part I”
Room 409A
“The Aesthetics of Intervention: Federal Governments and Native Art across North America”
Room 409B
“The Postwar Environment in Global Context”
Room 406B
2:00PM
“’68 and After: Art and Political Engagement in Europe” (European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum EPCAF)
Room 409A
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part I”
Room 407
“Between Nation-“ness” and Nation-“less” in Postwar Asia”
Room 501B
“Biennials of the Global South: Charting Transnational Networks of Exchange”
Room 402A
“Changing Hands: When Art History Meets the Art Market” (The International Art Market Studies Association TIAMSA)
Room 404B
“Imperial Islands: Vision and Experience in the American Empire after 1898 “
Room 506
“Intercontinental: Indigenous Artists of the Americas on the Contemporary Art Stage”
Room 409B
“Islamic Art Circa 1900” (Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey AMCA)
Room 503
“Object – Event – Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s”
Room 501A
“Restaging Exhibitions: Past, Present, Futures?, Part I: Curators in the Act of Restaging”
Room 408A
4:00PM
“Art of Haiti, 1940s to the Present, Part II”
Room 407
“Collecting, Cutting, and Collaging”
Room 406B
“Intimate Geographies”
Room 410
“Save Our Children! That Sweet, Sweet Pie in Anita Bryant’s Face”
Room 405
“The Artist’s Resource: Building Documentation Systems for Artists”
Room 406A
6:00PM
“Movements in Art and Activism: Radical Practice in California and Beyond”
Room 405
“Teaching and Writing the Art Histories of Latin American Los Angeles” (Art Historians of Southern California AHSC)
Room 403B
“The Craft School Experience”
Room 408B
Friday
02/23/2018
8:30am
“Autonomy and the 1960s”
Room 409B
“Casts: Plaster and Pedagogy”
Room 409A
“Circuits of Belonging: Rerouting Blackness in the Imaginary”
Room 408A
“Cold War Art Archives, Collections, and Exhibitions: Starting from Los Angeles”
Room 402B
“Design and Neoliberalism: The Economics and Politics of “Total Design” across the Disciplines” (Design Studies Forum DSF)
Room 402A
“Global Conversations – Border Crossings: The Migration of Art, People, and Ideas” (CAA-Getty International Program and International Committee)
Room 403B
“Irrational Identities: Art, Science, and Selves”
Room 405
“Modern Architecture and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century”
Room 503
“Pop Art and Class, Part II”
Room 501B
“Remote Sensing: The American West in Modernity and After”
Room 506
“Reorganizing the Art World: Postwar and Contemporary Collectives in Asia”
Room 501C
“Warp, Weft, World: Postwar Textiles and Transcultural Form”
Room 408B
10:30am
“America Is (Still) Hard to See: New Directions in American Art History”
Room 408A
“Art and Fiction Since the 60s”
Room 404B
“Avant-Gardes and Varieties of Fascism, Part II”
Room 407
“Climate Aesthetics in the Anthropocene”
Room 405
“Decolonizing Art Histories: The Intersections of Diaspora and World Studies”
Room 406B
“Digital Craft: A Historical Perspective”
Room 408B
“Digital Surrogates: The Reproduction and (re)Presentation of Art and Cultural Heritage”
Room 409A
“Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design Histories” (Design History Society)
Room 402A
“Rethinking Regionalism: The Midwest in American Art History”
Room 506
“West Coast Artists and the Catalogue Raisonné” (Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association CRSA)
Room 402B
“Women’s Liberation and the Persistence of Painting”
Room 409B
2:00PM
“Art and the Cold War in East Asia: The Long 1970s”
Room 409B
“Art on the Nature of Data about Nature”
Room 501A
“Collaboration on Paper”
Room 406A
“French North Africa and the Architecture of Counterinsurgency”
Room 501C
“Hucksters or Connoisseurs?: The Role of Intermediary Agents in Art Economies”
Room 404B
“Race and Deleuze: Representation, Affect, Art”
Room 408A
“Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Appropriation in the History of Design”
Room 402A
“Soundscape/Textscape”
Room 410
“Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Address Controversies” (Public Art Dialogue PAD)
Room 402B
“Women Artists, Social Issues, and the Resistance” (Coalition of Women in the Arts Organizations CWAO)
Room 501B
4:00PM
“‘Change the Joke, Slip the Yoke’ Twenty Years Later: African American Artists and ‘Negative’ Imagery”
Room 408A
“Agnotology of Contemporary Middle Eastern Art”
Room 409B
“Art in the Age of Global Martial Law”
Room 406B
“Crafted InSites”
Room 408B
“Decolonizing Design: Considering a Non-Western Approach to Design Pedagogy”
Room 402A
“Drawing from the Inside Out Exhibitor Session: Simultaneous Contrast in Color Theory”
Room 511A
“Feminist Art in Response to the State” (The Feminist Art Project TFAP)
Room 404A
“Repair and Maintenance in Art, Architecture, and Design, Part II”
Room 406A
“Sites of Micro-Community” (Society of Contemporary Art Historians SCAH)
Room 404B
“The Park Place Group: Another Minimalism”
Room 410
Molds as Cultural and Material Mediators
Room 409A
6:00PM
“A System of Systems: Cybernetics and Play in Postwar Art”
Room 405
“African Americans and US Law in Visual Culture”
Room 408A
“Craft: Unsettling Hierarchies”
Room 408B
Saturday
02/24/2018
8:30am
“Abstraction in Africa: Origins, Meaning, Function” (Arts Council of the African Studies Association ACASA)
Room 409A
“Art Nouveau: Symbolism of Beauty and Novelty” (Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History ATSAH)
Room 501A
“Decolonizing Art Museums? Part I”
Room 409B
“Evasive Articulations in the Age of ‘Fake News’: Thinking About the Relationship Between Art and Truth During the Trump Era”
Room 503
“Gender Parity and Bias in the Arts: A Demand for Change”
Room 407
“Inter-Arts Exchange as Modernist Method, circa 1900”
Room 501B
“Making Things Modular”
Room 402A
10:30am
“A Way/s from Home: Blackness Across Nations”
Room 409A
“Art: Creative Care”
Room 406B
“Critical Craft: Voice of the Object “
Room 408B
“Curating Experience as a Work of Art”
Room 407
“Decolonizing Art Museums? Part II”
Room 501C
“Experiments with Technology in Latin American Art: From the 1960s to the 1980s”
Room 404B
“Interaction with Color Redux”
Room 402B
“Modernity, Identity, and Propaganda”
Room 501B
“Palpable and Mute as a Globed Fruit and Dumb as Old Medallions to the Thumb “
Room 410
“Recuperation”
Room 406A
“What Do We Do Now? Art and Politics circa 1970 and Now”
Room 503
2:00PM
“Art Journalism and Political Crisis”
Room 408A
“Critical Craft: Craft’s Evolving Relationship with Industry”
Room 408B
“From Avant Garde to Afrofuturism: Return to Identity”
Room 409A
“Pop América: Contesting Freedom, 1965–75”
Room 404B
“The Exhibition as Critical Practice” (Southeastern College Art Conference SECAC)
Room 407
“Time, Space, Movement: Art between Perception, Imagination, and Fiction”
Room 406A
4:00PM
“Chican@ Art History: Interdisciplinary Foundations and New Directions” (US Latinx Art Forum USLAF)
Room 404B
“Critical Craft: What Craft Archives?”
Room 408B
“New Directions in Black-British Art History”
Room 409A
“No Discipline”
Room 408A
“Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance “
Room 503
“Structure, Texture, Facture in Avant-Garde Art”
Room 501A
“Surrealism’s Subversive Taxonomies”
Room 501B
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