Tracy
Emin, The Last Thing I said to You was Don't Leave Me Here II,
2000
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Session 5: The Avant-Garde and its Publics
Avant-garde art is often seen as being at
odds with the general public, and deliberately so. Avant-garde
artists are seen as making images and objects that are wilfully
esoteric, even elitist, and contemptuous of common concerns. But
the history is more complicated. In this talk Dominic Willsdon
argues that the avant-garde can be understood as a response to
the specifically modern problem of trying to communicate with
a general public, rather than the particular publics of earlier
times. He considers how many avant-garde artists and artists'
groups in the last 100 years can be seen as experimenting not
just with new kinds of art but with new ideas about what it means
to be a public.
Webcast
of Session 5 (Real Media stream)
Speaker: Dominic Willsdon, Curator, Public
Events at Tate Modern, tutor in aesthetics at the Royal College
of Art, and faculty member of the London Consortium.
Suggested Further Reading
- Michael Warner, chapter 2 in Publics and Counterpublics,
Zone Books, NYC, 2002.
- Paul Wood, 'The Point is to Change It:
The avant-garde in the early twentieth century', P. Wood ed.,
The Challenge of the Avant-Garde, Yale University Press, 1999,
pp.183-203
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