Cornucopia

Collecting, Conserving, Documenting, and Exhibiting Early Modern Art in the Southern United States

The art collections of the Southern United States contain rich and representative holdings of Renaissance and Baroque art. This anthology considers how these objects were acquired by prominent public and private collections, how they have been curated and displayed in exhibitions, and how they have also been preserved historically.

Papers can address a variety of media that include painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, illustrated books/manuscripts and ephemera from all world cultures representative of the early modern period (within ca. 1450-1700).

Essays dealing with the formation of college/university collections are of great interest. Also welcome are case studies of specific works of art, collections, and/or collectors within the broad geographic scope of the U.S. South (inclusive of the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas).

Submission process: Please send a 500 word abstract and CV to estevezl@wssu.edu by Friday, August 14, 2015. Once selected, abstracts will be submitted as part of a book proposal to Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.