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The City in Art (Warsaw - Cracow, Sept. 2004)
Biuletyn Historii Sztuki The City in Art
Location: Poland
Call for Papers Deadline: 2004-03-31 International conference, interdisciplinary
Venues: Institute of Art (IS PAN), Warsaw, Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, September 2004 (2nd week)
In all societies which define themselves as being civil-ised the relationship between the city and artistic creativity, complicated and ambiguous though it may inevitably be, seems to have proved a typically symbiotic one. If broad definitions of 'the city' and 'the arts' may be generally accepted as relevant and significant to the human condition throughout time and space, it is possible to pose a whole series of questions which might, if taken up in a frank and serious enough manner, give rise to a debate concerning the quintessence of cultural aspects in such 'civilisations'.
This conference is planned to take place in two coordinated stages: part one in the modern, political capital and part two in the residential seat of the mediaeval kings of Poland. As well as encouraging the participation of researchers in a variety of fields, for whom the relationship between culture and the urban environment has a key importance, this gathering is also aimed at challenging art historians, alongside researchers in the visual arts, to confront the city's influence (minimal, relative or all-pervading) in their own specialisations. A conference organised under such a title is intended to lend cause for a lively confrontation of knowledge, awareness and experience in the urban environment between 'homegrown' participants and those taking part from abroad.
Although a European bias is both foreseen and, considering the two venues, somewhat inevitable, reference to and due consideration of urban culture in the Moslem world, the Indian Subcontinent, Far East, Black Africa,
pre-conquest America etc. is also equally welcome.
As a necessary precondition of their being able to participate, the waiving of accommodation costs for the duration of the conference, as well as of travelling between Warsaw and Cracow, is planned for all visiting speakers.
While funds are inevitably meagre, arrangements should permit visiting guests
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to discover something of the urban life and culture of the two host cities (e.g. practising architects and conservators or architectural theoretics
acting as guides to various aspects or individual monuments/designs/projects in relation to or isolated from their urban surroundings, etc.).
Peter Martyn, Instytut Sztuki PAN, ul. Dluga 26/28, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland
Phone: (22) 831-32-71, ext. 236 Fax: (22) 831-31-49
Email: Peter Martyn peter.martyn@ispan.pl alt. bhsztuki@mercury.ci.uw.edu.pl
Reference:
CFP: The City in Art (Warsaw - Cracow, Sept. 2004). In: ArtHist.net, Dec 23, 2003 (accessed Feb 27, 2022),
<https://arthist.net/archive/26059>.
