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EVCS | Felicity Harley-McGowan ‘Being Blunt: The art history ‘revolution’ in 1940s London′

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  Felicity Harley-McGowan ‘Being Blunt’: The art history ‘revolution’ in 1940s London In 1940, London was home to a thriving network of scholarly activity in the discipline of art history. Three books published in that year have been seen within their own fields of research to epitomise the radical transformation of the discipline in the English-speaking world across the 1930s and 1940s. Concerning aspects of classical, medieval and Renaissance art and intellectual culture, each was published by a leading institution (The Courtauld Institute, British Museum, and The Warburg Institute), and…

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Postgraduate Masterclasses with Irit Rogoff and David Joselit at the AAANZ conference

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Postgraduate students are invited to participate in Masterclasses to be held as part of the AAANZ 2013 conference with Keynote Speakers, Professor David Joselit (Yale University), and Professor Irit Rogoff (Goldsmiths University, London). Both Masterclasses will be held on Saturday 7th December at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. David Joselit | Art in the Age of Big Data Information has always been political, but with the rise of Big Data in intelligence operations, activists like Edward Snowden and groups like Wikileaks have made it clear that political sovereignty now means control…

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Lecture | Justin Clemens ‘What do we talk about when we talk about contemporary art?’

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The third lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary - Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Justin Clemens. His lecture What do we talk about when we talk about contemporary art? will coincide with the publication of his forthcoming book Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy. This lecture surveys the most important theories of contemporary art – including those by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Boris Groys, Jacques Ranciere, various Octoberites and so-called Speculative Realists – in order to point out their strengths and weaknesses, and outline several possible new ways of…

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Talk: Modernism as a Local Phenomenon: The Art of Artur Barrio and Helio Oiticica - María Elena Lucero

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Modernism as a Local Phenomenon: The Art of Artur Barrio and Helio Oiticica María Elena Lucero Visiting Argentinian art theorist María Elena Lucero presents a paper on influential Brazilian artists Artur Barrio and Helio Oiticica in relation to recent ‘decolonial’ thinking in Latin America. In this, she tracks a particular local modernism that drew its materials from the margins. She references the tropicalia movement, which endures as a quintessential southern way of thinking and creating. Her paper reflects a ‘decolonial aesthetics’, as found in Latin American writers such as Ramón…

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Call for Papers - ‘French Theory : reception in the visual arts in the United States between 1965 and 1995′ (Brussels, May, 2011)

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French Theory : reception in the visual arts in the United States between 1965 and 1995 Brussels, 12-14 May 2011 Summary There are many American artists, active in the second half of the twentieth century, whose practice and theory have been infuenced by philosophy, literary studies and social sciences. In this regard, several French scholars have benefited from early sustained interest. Among these are major figures such as Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Bourdieu, Foucault, Lacan, Althusser, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida or Deleuze. Many thinkers whose  writings have come to constitute the corpus of…

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