[AHS-Grads] Fwd: Request to circulate: “A Simultaneous Vision of the Page”

[Iselda Salgado]

Please see CFP below.

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From: Baer, Alana <afb3 at williams.edu>
Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Subject: Request to circulate: “A Simultaneous Vision of the Page”
To: <iselda.salgado at ucr.edu>


Dear Iselda,

I hope this finds you well. My name is Alana, and I’m a current MA student
in the History of Art at Williams College. I’m writing from the Research
and Academic Program (RAP) at the Clark Art Institute, where I'm
convening “A Simultaneous Vision of the Page,” a day-long graduate
symposium on April 9, 2027. Would you be willing to circulate the CFP to
graduate students in the History of Art? The full call is pasted below and
also attached as a PDF. Thank you so much for your consideration, and let
me know if you have any questions.

Warm regards,
Alana
RAP 2026–27 Intern

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A Simultaneous Vision of the Page

“The ‘blanks’ indeed assume importance,” wrote French poet Stéphane
Mallarmé about his 1897 poem *Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard*.
“The paper intervenes each time an image, of its own accord, ceases or
withdraws, accepting the succession of others.” More than seventy years
later, Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers turned to Mallarmé’s poem,
reprising its title in his artist’s book, *Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira
le hasard. Image *(1969). In it, Broodthaers obscured Mallarmé’s words with
black bars while preserving their layout across the page. He printed these
bars on translucent paper, bringing successive pages into view when stacked
and bound—as if to fulfill, in his own way, Mallarmé’s call for “a
simultaneous vision of the Page.”

This poem and artist’s book bracket one historical interval in which the
page became a charged field of artistic and literary experimentation,
collaboration, and exchange. The pairing of Mallarmé and Broodthaers
represents only one history of the page, and current graduate students are
encouraged to propose talks that bring others into view. Speakers are
invited to explore how visual and literary practices were brought into
relation on the surface, site, and space of the page between the 1890s and
circa 1970. Interventions should probe how encounters between artworks and
text on the page, a space long associated with literature, transformed the
ways those works were seen, read, and written about. Of particular interest
is how the page—even, and perhaps especially, its blank space—surfaced and
structured social and political being.

Participants might consider, but need not limit themselves to, questions
such as:

   - What role did typographic and design elements play in shaping
   hierarchies between text and image, and in negotiating authorial and
   artistic agency?
   - How did the materiality of the substrate—the texture and weight of the
   paper, for instance—complicate readings of unmarked space as neutral?
   - How did artistic movements leverage the mobility of the page to
   cultivate and expand transnational networks, as in the case of the Gutai
   Art Association?
   - In what ways did experiments on and between pages converge with, and
   diverge from, time-based media like film?
   - How did little magazines, such as those of the Harlem Renaissance,
   contend with the racial politics of the black-and-white page?
   - To what extent did experiments with transparency and superimposition
   destabilize the page as a discrete visual field?


Selected speakers will deliver 20-minute talks, followed by extended
discussion, during this one-day semi-private symposium, held on Friday,
April 9, 2027, at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The event will conclude with a public keynote delivered by *Trevor
Stark* (Associate
Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Calgary,
Canada).

The symposium is convened by Alana Frances Baer (Williams Graduate Program
in the History of Art ’27) and the Research and Academic Program at the
Clark Art Institute.

Current PhD, MFA, and MA students based in the United States in the fields
of art history, studio art, and related disciplines such as comparative
literature, English, and film and media studies are invited to submit
an abstract
of c. 200 words with CV* to simultaneousvisionofthepage at gmail.com
<simultaneousvisionofthepage at gmail.com> by* November 20, 2026.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent in January. The Clark covers and
arranges round-trip transportation to Williamstown, lodging, and
hospitality during the convening.

For more details, visit:
www.clarkart.edu/Research-Academic/RAP-Events/simultaneous-vision-of-the-page
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