Goklust

Wat een geweldig onderwerp: kunst en gokken. Op het congres van de Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, dat van 3 tot 6 maart 2011 in Arizona (USA) plaatsvindt, wordt een panel over dit onderwerp georganiseerd. De call for papers luidt als volgt:

Writing on Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin presented the gambler as a heroic modern type, a mirror image of the industrial laborer in his mechanized actions, drudgery and eternally delayed wish fulfillment. In the nineteenth century, games of chance ceased to be the preserve of aristocratic society; as gambling became increasingly institutionalized it was also fetishized and pathologized. This panel invites papers that explore what purchase gambling ­ that singular experience of betting on chance ­ had on nineteenth-century visual culture. Contributions might engage visual representations of gambling, casino architecture and decor [K&WH: !], literary representations of artist-gamblers, speculation in the art market, or art-making and artistic careers as forms of gambling.

Wie durft? Meer informatie: Allison Morehead, morehead@queensu.ca.