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Home > News > SYMPOSIUM: Illustration and Its Histories: New Resources, New Voices, New Directions

SYMPOSIUM: Illustration and Its Histories: New Resources, New Voices, New Directions

by Dan Heck | Dec 17, 2019

SYMPOSIUM: Illustration and Its Histories: New Resources, New Voices, New Directions

SYMPOSIUM: Illustration and Its Histories: New Resources, New Voices, New Directions

 

A symposium organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies and the Hunter College Department of Art and Art History.

 

About the Conference:

Conference Location and Date:
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Ave., New York, NY
Friday, March 27, 2020
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a Reception to Follow

Organized by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, New York City, this one-day interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars, curators, and artists who are exploring new approaches to the study of illustration within historical and contemporary frameworks.

As a set of practices and a cultural force, illustration emerged in the 19th century as a new and distinctly modern phenomenon. A vital component of the visual languages of advertising, design, publishing, and entertainment, illustration is omnipresent in modern culture, yet its historical, contextual, and theoretical specifics have remained relatively unexamined. This symposium aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners across multiple fields who are interested in the history, practice, and subjects of illustration, and who want to contribute to the emerging field of illustration studies. It is meant to build on and amplify the important work done at a multi-day symposium on illustration at Washington University in St. Louis in the spring of 2019, also co-sponsored by the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies.

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