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The 2011 Midwest Art History Society conference will take place in Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 14-16. The scheduled plenary speakers are Jim Dine and Rebecca Zorach. Sessions will take place at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art. Proposals of no more than 250 words and a recent CV should be submitted electronically by October 15. A full list of panels is available at the conference website:http://www.mahsonline.org/annual_meeting.asp
The Garden as Ideal
Chair: Craig Hanson, CraigAshleyHanson@gmail.com
Because of the way gardens foreground the complex relationship between art and nature, they typically give physical form to various ideals regarding nature and its role in the constructed environment. This panel invites papers addressing gardens throughout history as these spaces shaped visions of how the world – or at least a portion of the world – should be ordered. Presentations might address issues of paradise, the garden as a sacred space, themes of knowledge construction, notions of nature perfected, the function of geometry, or the picturesque.
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