The Society for Paragone Studies and its sister organization the Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History, both affiliates of the College Art Association and SECAC, are jointly hosting the 6th Annual International Conference in Paragone Studies to be held in Ann Arbor Michigan on the University of Michigan campus. ATSAH s dedicated to scholarship that ties text to practice while the Paragone Society studies the history of artistic rivalry, from any period and in any medium.
The annual conference examines the paragone, or rivalry in artistic practice and its related fields. All disciplines relevant to inter-arts rivalry are eligible to be featured, such as art history and visual culture, aesthetic theory, literary theory and comparative literature, philosophy, critical theory, visual communications, cultural studies, and musicology, amongst others. Rivalry from all eras of history and global contexts will be considered.