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The Department of Philosophy & the Miami Art Museum are proud to
present
The 5th Annual
Parodi Lecture in Philosophy of Art
Dr. Matthew Kieran
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy,
University of Leeds
Matthew Kieran is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Leeds University. He
is vice-president of the British Society of Aesthetics, is currently
running the twelve-month 'Knowing Art' series of workshops at
Tate Britain, and gave the invited public lecture at the National
Icelandic Visual Arts Awards, 2007. He is the author of Revealing
Art (London: Routledge, 2005) and Media Ethics: A
Philosophical Approach (Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1997/99). He is
also editor of Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the
Philosophy of Art (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), and co-editor (with
Dominic McIver Lopes) of Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and
Epistemology, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006) and of Imagination,
Philosophy and the Arts, (London: Routledge, 2003).
"Artistic Transgressions"
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Shonibare's work is often stylistically and
socio-politically transgressive, as can be seen from his reworking of
Fragonard's La Balancoire and Hogarth's A Rake's Progress to his 19th
century attired figures dressed in African-styled wax-printed cloth. In
the contemporary art world transgression is a feature that is often
highly prized. Yet the pursuit of transgression has lately come under
heavy criticism from the likes of Anthony Julius (as banal) and Susan
Sontag (as empty and frivolous). What is it that makes for good
transgressive art? The philosophical examination of this question in
relation to both contemporary and historical artists will shed light on
what it is for a work to be good as transgressive art and why we
attribute value to art works in the ways we do.
Miami Art Museum* (101 W. Flagler St.)
Seating begins at 10:30AM;
Lecture begins at 11:00AM.
Refreshments will follow.
This event is free and open to the
public, and made possible by the generous support of Mr. Gonzalo Parodi.
* Directions to the Miami
Art Museum - From the north: Take I–95 south to exit 2C (Downtown,
Miami Ave, Biscayne Blvd and Brickell Ave) and make a left on SE 1st
Ave. Take SE 1st Ave to Flagler St and make a left and proceed straight
until you arrive to Miami Art Museum on the right. From the south:
take I-95 north to exit 2A (Biscayne Blvd and Downtown) and make a left
on SE 1st Ave. Take SE 1st Ave to Flagler St and make a left and proceed
straight until you arrive to Miami Art Museum on the right.
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