t h e C e n t r e f o r C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e s e a r c h
University of Southampton
What Future for Art?
A series of free public lectures in which distinguished thinkers from across
the field of art and
aesthetics speculate concretely, but controversially, on the conditions under
which art will thrive in
the near and medium-term future.
Every Thursday for eight weeks, 6.00 - 7.30pm, beginning 25 April 2002
New Lecture Theatre, University of Southampton
Park Avenue, Winchester, Hants
25 April
“What to do with the Avant-garde? Or: What remains of the 19th century in the
Art of the 20th?”
Thierry de Duve
Critic and theorist; author of Kant After Duchamp (1996), Greenberg Between the
Lines (1996), and Look, One Hundred Years of Contemporary Art (2001).
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2 May
“Post-Autonomous Art”
Victor Tupitsyn
Writer on art, and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Pace University, New
York; publications include The Communal (Post)modernism (1998), The Other of
Art (1997), and The Museological Unconscious (forthcoming).
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9 May
“Stealing Keffiya: Art and the Politics of Anxiety”
Renata Salecl
Visiting Professor at Duke University; Centennial Professor at the London
School of Economics; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Criminology,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; publications include The Spoils of Freedom
(1994) and (Per)versions of Love and Hate (1998).
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16 May
“The Future of the Viewer”
Brandon Taylor
Professor of History of Art, University of Southampton; publications include
Art and Literature Under the Bolsheviks (2 vols 1991 and 1992), The Art of
Today (1995), and Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public 1747-
2001 (1999).
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23 May
“Picturing the Self/Representing Subjectivity”
Gen Doy
Reader in the History and Theory of Visual Culture, De Montfort University;
publications include Materializing Art History (1998), Black Visual Culture:
Modernity & Postmodernity (2000), and Drapery: Classicism & Barbarism in Visual
Culture (2002).
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30 May
“Placing Art - Placing Ourselves”
Joseph Margolis
Laura H Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Temple University; Honorary President
of the International Association of Aesthetics; publications include
Interpretation Radical but Not Unruly: The New Puzzle of the Arts and History
(1995), What, After All, Is a Work of Art? (1999) and Selves & Other Texts: The
Case for Cultural Realism (2001).
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6 June
“Criticism as the Future of Art”
Andrew Benjamin
Professor of Critical Theory, Monash University, Australia; recent publications
include Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997), Architectural
Philosophy (2000), and Philosophy's Literature (2001).
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13 June
“The Work of Art in the Age of Curatorial Production”
Paul Crowther
Professor of Art & Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
International University of Bremen; publications include Art and Embodiment:
From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness (1993), The Language of Twentieth-
Century Art: A Conceptual History (1997), and The Transhistorical Image:
Philosophizing Art and its History (2002).
All inquiries to Judi August, [log in to unmask], (023) 8059 6946
If you would like further information on the aims and activities of the CCAR
please contact Dr Jonathan Dronsfield at [log in to unmask]
Dr Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
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Director
Centre for Contemporary Art Research
University of Southampton
Office: (+44 (0)23) 8059 6930
Home: (+44 (0)20) 7720 7976
Dr Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
____________________________________
Director
Centre for Contemporary Art Research
University of Southampton
Office: (+44 (0)23) 8059 6930
Home: (+44 (0)20) 7720 7976
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