Interiority is a trope that has been crucial to the understanding of a diverse range of fields, from architectural design to scientific experiment and understandings of subjectivity, broadly conceived. This session seeks to examine the ways in which interior spaces and hidden cavities (in bodies, buildings, machines, landscapes and natural phenomena, to name a few possible locations) were represented in eighteenth-century visual culture.
How were obscured spaces made present through visual means? What were the implications of such revelations? Papers that engage with the visual representation of interiority at the intersections of different media and disciplines are especially welcomed.
Please send proposals to session chairs Catherine Clinger and Richard Taws (here) and (here), or c/o. Richard Taws, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T6, Canada.
All participants must be members in good standing of ASECS or a constituent society of ISECS. Further details about ASECS and the annual conference are available here.
Session to be held at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 18-21 March 2010.
The deadline for proposals is 15 September 2009.