Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory p
resents:
“The Invention of Non-Art” a public talk by Thierry de Duve
Often seen\, together with other Dadaists\, as the inventor of non-art and anti-art\, Marcel Duchamp was in fact the messenger of a sea change in the art institution: he brought us the news that\, between 1880\, the date of the last Paris Salon under the aegis of the Ministère des Beaux-Arts\, and 1917\, the date of the first exhibition of the New York Society of Inde pendent Artists\, the art world has switched from the Fine Arts system to t he “Art-in-General” system\, in which we still live.
In the “Art-in-G eneral” system\, art can be made from anything whatever. As a result we are often incapable of identifying a given object as a work of art before appr aising it as good or bad art\, and the phrase “this is art” then becomes an aesthetic judgment. In the Fine Arts system\, by contrast\, aesthetic judg ments are phrased as “this painting is good\,” “this piece of music is subl ime\,” and the like. How did we move from “this painting is good” to “this thing is art\,” historically\, and theoretically? I shall argue that the mo ve implies an earlier transit through the negative aesthetic judgment\, “th is is not art\,” and that the concept of non-art resulting therefrom is not an invention of the Dadaists\; rather\, it is an involuntary by-product of the binary structure of the aesthetic verdicts cast at the 19th century Fr ench Salon.
12:00 pm
Friday\, February 6\, 2015
Sp ace is limited for this lecture – please RSVP to ahva.dept@ubc.ca< /p>
Audain Art Centre
Room 1002
6398 University Boulevard
Vancouver\, BC
Historian and philosopher of art\, Thierry de Duve is Professor Emeritus from the University of Lille 3\, and was Kirk Varnedoe V isiting Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University\, for the fall semester of 2013. His English publications include Pictorial Nomi nalism (1991)\, Kant after Duchamp (1996)\, Clement Greenberg Between the L ines (1996\, 2010)\, Look—100 Years of Contemporary Art (2001)\, and Sewn I n the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys\, Warhol\, Klein\, Duchamp (2012). He is pr esently finishing a book of essays on aesthetics\, forthcoming from the Uni versity of Chicago Press.
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