[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Modernist Taste (4/21/06; MSA, 10/19/06-10/22/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Modernist Studies Association 8 (2006)
October 19-22, 2006, Tulsa, OK

“Modernist Taste”

Modernist taste might at first glance seem an easy target for the kind
of “Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste” offered by Bourdieu in
_Distinction_. What could better exemplify the “denial of the social,”
the self-distinguishing “refusal of the facile,” or the “demand for the
distance that allows it to keep its distance” of Bourdieu’s “pure taste”
than the elitist, putatively “impersonal,” self-consciously difficult
modernist work of art? But recent re-mappings of modernism and of
aesthetic discourse suggest the need for a reconsideration of the
nature, function(s), and implications of the concept of taste in
modernist art and modern society.

For this interdisciplinary panel I am seeking papers that would
reconsider taste as a key modality for understanding, negotiating,
and/or critiquing modernity: its flows and forms of power, production,
and consumption; its shifting categories and constructions of class,
gender, and sexual identity; the taste-shaping force of its residual and
emerging media, from Art to advertising; its technologies of
communication and cultural institutions; its rapidly changing situation
of the artist and the work of art. Papers from all relevant disciplines
are welcome, as are papers focused on works from any artistic medium,
and from all cultural strata (i.e. high, low or middlebrow
taste). How are questions and conflicts of taste theorized, embodied,
and/or represented in the modernist period? In light of the conference
theme, how does taste work to create, delimit, and/or change the
“archive” that may be said to constitute culture?

Please send a maximum 500-word abstract by April 21 to David McWhirter
at d-mcwhirter at tamu.edu or at 166 Sand Hill Cove Road, Narragansett, RI
02882.

For information about the MSA conference, see
http://www.utulsa.edu/jjq/msa8/



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