PhD Conference of Art Historians, MUNI – Fall 2023: Community
12 December 2023, Hans Belting Library, Veveří 28, Brno
Call for Papers
A community is a group of individuals living in a particular area or sharing common interests and values, while fostering social connections and mutual support within a defined conceptual boundary. Communities of various common denominators participated throughout ages in the conception and perception of artworks as authors, sponsors, and audiences. Fine arts play a pivotal role as a means of expression, transmission, and reinforcement of the values shared by the whole community or some of its members/adherents. The authorship itself can be thought of as a collective creative state shaped by the circumstances and communities behind the creator. Through community engagement in fine arts, individuals can find common ground, celebrate a diversity, and contribute to the enrichment and cohesion of society, but they also can reinforce exclusivity leading to the community’s isolation. Our aim is to reflect on the circumstances that condition the creation of an artwork as a result of broader interactions and complex relationships, and conversely on the contributions of the artwork to the formation of societies.
This conference invites to reflect on questions including but not limited to:
- What roles have fine arts played in shaping and representing various communities?
- What narratives, images, and strategies do communities use for visual representations of selves and others?
- How did various communities engage with the concept of arts and authorship?
- How is the invisible community (studio, workshop, society) surrounding the author included into the production and the final form of an artwork?
Application deadline 12 November.
Please send an abstract and a short academic bio to Petr Janáč at janac.pe@gmail.com by 3 December 2023.
