CFP: Fashionability and Temporality in Art Production, Reception and Historicization (Session at AAH – York, 9-11 Apr 25)
Fashionability in art (or its other, outdatedness) forces change, directs artistic agency, and amplifies the (modernist) imperative for innovation and originality. Indeed, in his Arcades Project (1927-40), Walter Benjamin identified the temporal dynamics…