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Modernist Objects

Third International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM)

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Veröffentlicht am Montag, 06. November 2017

Zusammenfassung

Modernist art and literature focused on the mundane, as emblematized by the everyday object, which now crystallized our changing relation to the world. Papers could examine the claim that the poetry and prose, the visual and performing arts, and the music of the Modernist era accounted for a shift in object relations with an intensity of observation in proportion with the changes which so profoundly affected the experience of living in industrial times. 

Inserat

The Third International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies (SEM) will take place on 13-14-15-16th June 2018, at Paris Sorbonne University (VALE EA 4085)

Argument

In a line which seems pre-emptively levelled at Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go exactly one century later, Richard Aldington wrote in The Egoist that “one of the problems of modern art” is that “to drag smells of petrol, refrigerators, ocean greyhounds, President Wilson and analine [sic] dyes into a work of art will not compensate for lack of talent and technique.” This was December 1914. In the next few decades, psychoanalysis sought to make sense of the trivial, thinkers inquired into the status of the mass-produced object, and the rise of feminist and Labour movements posed the prosaic and essential question of material comforts. Modernist art and literature focused on the mundane, as emblematized by the everyday object, which now crystallized our changing relation to the world. The anachronistic frigidaire patent in Ezra Pound’s “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” ordinariness in William Carlos Williams’s famous “red wheelbarrow,” defamiliarization in Gertrude Stein’s “Roastbeef” are but a few possible variations on the object, its importance becoming central to the British neo-empiricists and the American Objectivists. Papers could examine the claim that the poetry and prose, the visual and performing arts, and the music of the Modernist era accounted for a shift in object relations with an intensity of observation in proportion with the changes which so profoundly affected the experience of living in industrial times. This SEM conference invites English-language contributions that cover the widest range of reflections on Modernist objects.

Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

  • the object vs the thing
  • instruments and tools, technology, the machine
  • the object as mass-produced commodity; resistance to consumption
  • waste, junk, obsolescence, recycling
  • the material presence of the book or the magazine in everyday life
  • architecture, machines for living
  • the Utopian potential of the crafted object
  • the gift and the unalienable object
  • objects, social identities and intimacy
  • the object and/in space
  • the object in/of science
  • non-human agency

Keynote speakers

  • Rachel Bowlby (University College London);
  • Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University). 

Submission guidelines

Please send proposals (300 words) and short biographies to Hélène Aji, Université Paris Nanterre (helene.aji@parisnanterre.fr), Noëlle Cuny, Université de Haute Alsace (noelle.cuny@gmail.com), and Xavier Kalck, Université Paris Sorbonne (xkalck@gmail.com) 

no later than November 15th, 2017.

Notification of decision: December 15th, 2017. 

Scientific committee

  • Hélène Aji,
  • Rachel Bowlby,
  • Vincent Bucher,
  • Noëlle Cuny,
  • Xavier Kalck,
  • Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec,
  • Douglas Mao,
  • Scott McCracken,
  • Caroline Pollentier,
  • Naomi Toth.

Orte

  • Paris, Frankreich (75)

Daten

  • Mittwoch, 15. November 2017

Schlüsselwörter

  • modernism, objects, things, instruments, commodities, materiality, the visual arts

Kontakt

  • Hélène Aji
    courriel : helene [dot] aji [at] parisnanterre [dot] fr
  • Noëlle Cuny
    courriel : noelle [dot] cuny [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Xavier Kalck
    courriel : xkalck [at] gmail [dot] com

Informationsquelle

  • Noëlle Cuny
    courriel : noelle [dot] cuny [at] gmail [dot] com

Lizenz

CC0-1.0 Diese Anzeige wird unter den Bedingungen der Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universell .

Zitierhinweise

« Modernist Objects », Beitragsaufruf, Calenda, Veröffentlicht am Montag, 06. November 2017, https://doi.org/10.58079/ype

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