Art & Language 'Incident: Now They Are. Look out', 1993
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Whatever happened to theory II
Periodising Contemporary Art (or, What Happened to 'Postmodernism'?). Seminar with Peter Osborne
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During the 1980s, ideas surrounding art within an Anglo-American context were profoundly transformed by the influence of French, and to a lesser extent, German philosophy and critical theory. The reception of these ideas was accompanied by a deep renovation of the discourse and central concerns of critical theory of the history of art. But even further, it normalised the idea of a discourse surrounding art of a strictly theoretical nature: a ‘theory of art’.
The influence of this thought in the dominant Anglo-American context, its comings and goings, its connection to psychoanalysis, feminism, postcolonial discourse and, finally, its global academic expansion, has given shape to the discursive/theoretical context which we still inhabit today when discussing art. This series of seminars attempts, on one hand, to re-evaluate the validity of the concepts, problems, antagonisms and debates that marked the decade of the 1980s and, on the other, to point to possible directions of renovation at a moment when the postures that formerly seemed ‘radical’, today comfortably inhabit the most academic environments.
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Del “postmodernisme” a la “contemporaneïtat” — Les derives de la teoria II. La periodització de l’art contemporani (o: què se n’ha fet del “postmodernisme”?) [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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Les derives de la teoria II. La periodització de l’art contemporani (o: què se n’ha fet del “postmodernisme”?) [Full de mà]
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October i el problema del formalisme — Les derives de la teoria II. La periodització de l’art contemporani (o: què se n’ha fet del “postmodernisme”?) [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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