Avant-garde
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, Incidental and Integral Beauty: Duchamp, Danto and the Intractable Avant-Garde
Jason Gaiger
08/03/2008
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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It is widely accepted that the radical avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century abjured beauty, thereby effecting a decisive break with the art of the past. Duchamp is accorded a leading role in this process insofar as he rejected the satisfactions of ‘retinal pleasure’ in favour of an art of ideas. This paper argues that although it is a mistake to assimilate the Readymades to...
Plenary 2
Dominic Willsdon, Julian Stallabrass, Paul Wood
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Plenary 2. This study day explores concepts of avant-gardism, and the ways in which these have been deployed to historicise and interpret twentieth century art.
Contemporary Art and the Avant-Garde
Julian Stallabrass
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Julian Stallabrass , Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art.There seems to be a great distance between the contemporary art scene and the avant-garde as traditionally conceived. Avant-garde art was thought of as difficult, having a limited market and only achieving success (if at all) after a long period of time. Much contemporary art is easy on the eye and...
The Avant-Garde and its Publics
Dominic Willsdon
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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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. 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...
Conceptual Art and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Paul Wood
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Paul Wood, Senior Lecturer in History of Art at The Open University.The political conditions of the 1930s followed by the Second World War either destroyed or significantly undermined the historical avant-gardes. Yet by the mid-1950s apparently comparable tendencies were re-emerging on an international scale. The relationship of this so-called ‘neo’-avant-garde to radical politics has...
Plenary 1
Gail Day, Martin Gaughan, Steve Edwards
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Dada to Surrealism: Continuity
Martin Gaughan
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Martin Gaughan, writer and former Head of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff .This talk traces some of the issues which informed work in the different Dada centres, establishing their origins and concerns, and considering how the relationships between the different moments can be characterized. Martin Gaughan explores the sense in which Dada, as...
USSR in Construction
Steve Edwards
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Steve Edwards, Research Lecturer in History of Art at The Open University. This talk looks at Russian art from just before World War 1 until the middle of the 1930s, considering the relation between Constructivist art and the politics of the period. In the wake of the 1917 revolution many avant-garde artists identified with the aims of the Bolshevik regime. Some artists took up teaching...
Theories of the Avant-Garde
Gail Day
26/06/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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Speaker: Gail Day, Senior Lecturer in art theory and history at Wimbledon School of Art and an editor of the Oxford Art Journal.This talk sets up the day's discussions by considering the interrelated concepts of the 'avant-garde' and 'neo-avant-garde'. While looking briefly at the origins of the concepts, and some of the confusions of terminology that are frequently encountered in the literature...
Discussion 1
Dominic Willsdon, Matthew Gale, Paul Wood, Sophie Howarth
27/03/2004
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Tate Modern Study Day Event
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