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Session at CAA (New York, 10-13 Feb 21)
College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, Feb 10–13, 2021 Deadline: May 15, 2020
Francesca Ferrari, Brooklyn
Russian and Early Soviet Avant-Garde Theater (1890-1935)
We seek advanced graduate students and emerging scholars to deliver 15-minute presentations as part of the panel "Russian and Early Soviet Avant-Garde Theater (1890-1935). This session will highlight emerging scholarship on Russian and early Soviet avant-garde theater during the early twentieth century (c. 1890-1935), seeking to generate interdisciplinary dialogue on the collabora- tive artistic practices, radical design solutions, and innovative modes of performance that charac- terized avant-garde theatrical production in Russia during this period. The active involvement of avant-garde visual artists in modern Russian theater—from the World of Art group’s work on Sym- bolist productions, to provocative Futurist spectacles, to Constructivist experiments in scenic con- struction—both defined Russian theatrical culture of the early twentieth century and deeply informed those artists’ practices in a variety of other media (painting, graphic art, photography, film, architecture).
We invite contributions examining the social, intellectual, and aesthetic rationales for the modes of theatrical production, performance, and display that emerged within this context. Potential top- ics include, but are not limited to: stage and costume design; theater architecture; intermediality and collaboration; concepts of synthesis or the “total work of art” in Russian theater production;
embodiment and gesture in performance; spectatorship; the role of theater in relation to the social and political ambitions of the Russian avant-gardes.
Please submit paper proposals including title, abstract (max. 250 words), institutional affiliation, and CAA membership number to Francesca Ferrari (fif204@nyu.edu) by Monday, May 15, 2020.
Reference:
CFP: Session at CAA (New York, 10-13 Feb 21). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 26, 2020 (accessed Feb 27, 2022),
<https://arthist.net/archive/23007>.