CFP: BUDDHIST ACROSS ASIA: A GENEALOGY OF GLOBAL ART (COLLEGUE ART ASSOCIATION, 2020)

 

Buddhist Modernism Across Asia: A Genealogy of Global Art 
(College Art Association, 2020)

Chicago, February 12-15 

Each year CAA members submit session abstract for the Call for Participation. The session listed below have been accepted by the Annual Conference Committee for CAA 2020 Chicago, February 12-15.

Since their inception more than two millennia ago, Buddhism and Buddhist art have undergone cross-cultural pollination across inter-Asian and intra-Asian borders. While these international connections in Buddhist art have been productive in generating a transnational methodology in art history, little attention has been given to the modern transformation of Buddhist art. This panel seeks to explore the intersection between Buddhist art (Buddhist world views, pluralism, cross-cultural histories, iconography, compositional logic, genres, and popular distribution platforms) and the epistemology of modern art and modernity (the division between the sacred and the secular, nation-state and citizenship, categorization and canonization, art education, the avant-garde, and the expanded audience in new institutions) that emerged and crystalized amid the twentieth-century histories of national building, imperialist expansions, post-colonial independence, and the global cold war. The panel welcomes papers that expand the inherently transcultural history of Buddhist art into the twentieth century and/or investigate contemporary manifestations of pre-modern Buddhist visual culture. In the early twentieth-century, for instance, how did Buddhist references inspire the universalizing ideals of Pan-Asianism? When the last king of Korea ordered the introduction of modern, military iconography into Buddhist temple paintings, how was the public space re-imagined in the country facing an impending Japanese colonialism? Why did artists working under the Chinese Communist government incorporate Buddhist folk imageries in the new woodcut movement? How did the Buddhist hanging painting provide visual references and material logic to street protest art during the anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy movement in South Korea?

FIELDS OF STUDY FOR THIS SESSION:
Asia
China, Imperial (up to 1911)
China, Modern (post-1911)
Central and North Asia
Southeast Asia 

Proposals must be submitted to the email listed at the bottom before August 11st.

Chairs notify submitters of their decisions by August 22, 2019 and upload the accepted abstracts into the submission site. Upon acceptance, all presenters' CAA memberships must be up to date.

The Annual Conference Committee encourages Chairs to consider engaging formats that encourage dialogue rather than a consecutive reading of papers. In a traditional four-person panel, CAA recommends each presenter not exceed 15 minutes in order to allow time for questions and discussion. All conference sessions are 90 minutes in length.

GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPANTS:

1. A paper that has been published previously or presented at another scholarly conference may not be delivered at the CAA Annual Conference.
2. You may submit to multiple sessions but may give only one presentation at the conference. If you have multiple accepted presentations you must withdraw all but one by notifying the Chair(s).
3. Three ways to participate at CAA: all session participants may take part in the conference in up to three ways. They may serve as a: 1) Session Chair; 2) Paper/Project Presenter; and/or 3) Session Discussant. Each member may not, however, serve in any role more than once in a particular conference year.
4. New in 2020: members may participate in a Lightning Round, if accepted, in addition to the three roles noted above.
5. If your Individual Paper/Presentation proposal was accepted during CAA's spring submission call, you may still apply to a Chaired session listed here in the 2020 Call for Participation. However, you must inform the CFP Chair(s) of any previous acceptance in your application form, and if accepted, withdraw all but one accepted presentation from CAA 2020, other than a Lightning Round.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION:

Individual Membership - in order to be added to the session and to participate in the Annual Conference, accepted participants, including presenters, Chairs, and discussants, must be current individual members of CAA through February 16, 2020. Inactive members will be removed from session listings after September 25, 2019.

Registration - All session participants must register in some capacity for the conference, at minimum for their own session (on-site only). Early full conference registration opens online October. Information about alternate conference registration options will be posted on the CAA website later in the fall.

The Committee greatly appreciates the efforts of session chairs and applicants to these sessions. Your participation makes the conference a rewarding experience for all attendees. Please visit our FAQ page and the Proposals page for additional information about conference submissions.

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THIS SESSION:

Chair: Sohl Lee, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Email: sohl.lee@gmail.com