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CAA Session: What Is Yucatecan about Yucatán: Examining Yucatán’s Visual Culture
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2012-05-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-04-18 |
| Announcement ID: |
194044 |
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In 1843, after his expedition into Central America that introduced North America to the Yucatán Peninsula’s Precolumbian Maya, explorer John Lloyd Stephens boasted that Yucatán had “numerous and extensive cities, desolate and in ruins, which induced us to believe that the country presented a greater field for antiquarian research and discoveries that any we had yet visited.” Keeping Stephens’s claims in mind, this panel seeks papers that examine the peninsula’s visual culture across the Precolum-bian, colonial, modern, and contemporary periods. By bringing together critically driven scholarship, we aspire to initiate a dialogue that considers what exactly is Yucatecan about Yucatán. Potential avenues for inquiry include: Why has the peninsula remained so understudied in the art historical discourse? How do we analyze its art and architecture as a conceptual practice that transcends regional, national, and international barriers? Ultimately, this panel addresses the formation of Yucatán’s unique visual cultural identity.
Proposals (including proposal form, preliminary abstract, letter of interest, and CV) must be sent to session chairs by May 4, 2012. Please see CAA’s 2013 Call for Participation for more information http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2013CallforParticipation.pdf.
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Cody Barteet, PhD
Department of Visual Arts
The University of Western Ontario
John Labatt Visual Arts Centre
Perth Drive
London, Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada
cbarteet@gmail.com
Amara Solari, PhD
The Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Professor of Art History and Anthropology
201 Borland Building
University Park, PA 16802
amara.solari@gmail.com
Email: cbarteet@gmail.com
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