A Multitude of Images
Professor David Joselit
Individual tickets are available for David Joselit’s keynote lecture for the 2013 AAANZ conference.
A multitude denotes a plurality of people or things. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it signifies ‘the character, quality, or condition of being many.’ The subject of this lecture will be the condition of being many with regard to images, for indeed it is possible to define modernism as a response to ‘a multitude of images.’ The lecture will range from early twentieth-century montage to recent practices of aggregating readymades among contemporary artists.
Professor David Joselit is a leading scholar and critic who has written about pivotal moments in modern art ranging from the Dada movement of the early twentieth century to the emergence of globalization and new media over the past decade. Professor Joselit is currently Carnegie Professor and Chair of the History of Art department at Yale University and an editor of OCTOBER. He also worked as a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston in the 1980s and regularly contributes to Artforum and Art in America. Professor Joselit also maintains a strong interest in gender, queer, and feminist studies. His publications include: After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012); Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT Press, 2007); Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (October Books; MIT Press, 1998); and American Art since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003).
Date: Monday 9th December
Venue: Great Hall, NGV International
Tickets: Full-price: $40 | Student/concession: $10 | NGV Member: $35