by Jon Lackman | 13 November 2007 | Conferences
The 2008 College Art Association conference, to be held February 20-23 in Dallas, now has a full website, including a list of all papers to be presented. A session entitled “Cute” will feature the following papers:
The Apotheosis of Cute: The Sacred and Profane in the Work of Mark Ryden
How Cute: eBay’s “Black Americana” Category, Sellers’ Deployment of Cuteness, and the Marketing of Racism
The Girl with a Child in Her Eyes: Cuteness as Hierarchy Solvent in Morrison, Manet, and Ayu
Not So Cute: Kawaii as Critique
The Visual Culture Caucus session is entitled “The Fresh New Look of Sheepherding.” In another session, Annetta Alexandridis will present a paper on “Animal Love: The Iconography of Zoophilia in Greek Art.” Marni Reva Kessler will present on “Antoine Vollon and the Perversion of Butter.”
This year’s Distinguished Scholar Robert L. Herbert will be feted at a session featuring Mark Antliff, S. Hollis Clayson, Michael Leja, and Cécile Whiting.
Art History Newsletter contributor Ben Lima will be co-chairing a two-part session on “Neuroscience and the History of Art.”
Another session is entitled “Video Needs Art History like a TV Set Needs a Plinth.”
