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Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, nationalist and/or imperialist projects in the U.S. and Mexico often involved a vexed process of situating dominant social groups in relation to an indigenous past while excluding an indigenous present. This panel invites recent scholarship addressing this topic that concentrates especially on the way the arts and other visual disciplines have been enlisted to position pre-Columbian civilizations as part of the cultural patrimony of either country (e.g. Tenorio-Trillo 1996). R. Tripp Evans (2004) and Jesse Lerner (2011) have brought new attention to nineteenth- and twentieth-century depictions of ancient American civilizations in their comparative analyses of European-American cultural imperialism and pan-American modernism, respectively. The present panel adds to this scholarly reconsideration by fostering dialogue across geographical borders and academic disciplines. Possible topics include: relations between the avant-garde and the academy; relations between art and archaeology; notions of pan-Americanism based on the framing of the indigenous past; uses of pre-Columbian architecture in government buildings, public museums, and other structures associated with the nation; and indigenous efforts to contest acts of historical revisionism in the shaping of national identity.
Proposals (maximum 500 words) should be emailed to Matt Johnston, Art History, Lewis & Clark College (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)), or Breanne Robertson, Art History, University of Maryland (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) no later than Wed., 1/25.
By mattj, Fri, January 13, 2012 - 10:42 amCategories:
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