Proposals due by 15 September 2010

Prints: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth-century prints provided unprecedented amounts of visual information, ranging in subject matter from ancient works of art to contemporary fashions. This panel invites papers on any aspects of print culture that explore issues of temporal orientation as expressed visually. In what ways did prints establish historical or period orientations? To what extent did prints forge strategies for making the past visible or for establishing an appropriate ‘look’ for the present? Papers might explore the production, marketing, circulation, or collecting of prints. Interchanges between multiple moments in time, between prints and other media, and between multiple audiences may be especially fruitful for the panel. In addition to papers dealing with single-sheet prints, proposals addressing illustrated books, frontispieces, and popular forms of imagery are also most welcome.

Please send a brief abstract (150-300 words) and a CV to CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com