Amphitheater
209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor
December 11, 2007
7pm
If the job of art criticism is interpretation, the task of art theory is to offer foundational principles for understanding the identity and cultural function of works of art.
In response to such recent artworks as Damien Hirst’s In the Name of God, Phil Collins’ The World Won’t Listen and Robert Longo’s drawings of deep space and atomic blasts, this lecture outlines a shift from aesthetics as the study of objects to aesthesis as a mode of experience and knowledge.
Johanna Drucker is Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (University of Chicago, 2006) and The Century of Artists' Books (Granary, 2004). Presented by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department.
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