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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Art History and Communication\nStudies welcom
 es Terry Smith\, Andrew W Mellon\nProfessor of Contemporary Art History an
 d Theory\, University of\nPittsburg\, to speak at our annual lecture serie
 s (follow this\nlink for a complete list of this year's\nspeakers).\nTitle
 : 'Contemporary Art: World\nPerspectives'\nAbstract: Is “contemporary” the
  name of an art\nhistorical period that has succeeded modernism (and postm
 odernism)\,\nor does “contemporaneity” mean that periodization is past (an
 \nanachronism from modernity) both in the general culture and in art?\nDoe
 s it then follow\, as many argue\, that contemporary art can only\nbe a ki
 nd of modernism that has outlived its time? Against this\,\nthere is the v
 iew that the multiple modernisms and non-modern\npractices within twentiet
 h century art prefigure the diversity of\ncontemporary art. This implies t
 hat shifts from modern to\ncontemporary art occurred in distinct ways in d
 ifferent places\, and\nthat tracking these is an urgent art historical tas
 k. Looking\ndirectly at the present\, we might ask whether or not contempo
 rary\nconditions have reshaped our conception of “the world” (in\nplanetar
 y terms\, for example\, as worlds-within-the-world)\, and thus\nour concep
 tion of the currents manifest in global contemporary art?\nAre the evident
  interconnections between each region\, people\, city\,\neven locality in 
 the world today sufficient to enable us to speak\nof a new\, contemporary 
 phase in the “world” history of art? Or have\nthese very connections led t
 o distinctively contemporary kinds of\nart that\, while resisting any fit 
 into a unified\, developmental\npicture\, remain nonetheless subject to cr
 itical analysis and\nhistorical hypothesis? In this lecture Professor Smit
 h will explore\nthese questions in relation to the ideas offered in his re
 cent\npublications\, notably his books What is Contemporary Art?\n(Univers
 ity of Chicago Press\, 2009) and Contemporary Art of the\nWorld: Late Mode
 rn to Now (Laurence King and Pearson/Prentice\nHall\, forthcoming).\nBiogr
 aphy: TERRY SMITH\, FAHA\, CIHA\, is Andrew\nW. Mellon Professor of Contem
 porary Art History and Theory in the\nDepartment of the History of Art and
  Architecture at the University\nof Pittsburgh\, and a Visiting Professor 
 in the Faculty of\nArchitecture\, University of Sydney. He is the 2009 win
 ner of the\nMather Award for art criticism conferred by the College Art\nA
 ssociation (USA). During 2001-2002 he was a Getty Scholar at the\nGetty Re
 search Institute\, Los Angeles\, and in 2007-8 the\nGlaxoSmithKlein Senior
  Fellow at the National Humanities Research\nCentre\, Raleigh-Durham. From
  1994-2001 he was Power Professor of\nContemporary Art and Director of the
  Power Institute\, Foundation\nfor Art and Visual Culture\, University of 
 Sydney. He was a member\nof the Art & Language group (New York) and a foun
 der of Union\nMedia Services (Sydney). He is the author of a number of boo
 ks\,\nnotably Making the Modern: Industry\, Art and Design in\nAmerica (Un
 iversity of Chicago Press\, 1993\; inaugural Georgia\nO’Keeffe Museum Book
  Prize 2009)\; Transformations in Australian\nArt\, volume 1\, The Ninetee
 nth Century: Landscape\, Colony\nand Nation\, volume 2\, The Twentieth Cen
 tury: Modernism and\nAboriginality (Craftsman House\, Sydney\, 2002)\; The
 \nArchitecture of Aftermath (University of Chicago Press\, 2006)\nand What
  is Contemporary Art? (University of Chicago\nPress\, 2009). He is editor 
 of many others including In Visible\nTouch: Modernism and Masculinity (Pow
 er Publications and the\nUniversity of Chicago Press\, 1997)\, First Peopl
 e\, Second\nChance: The Humanities and Aboriginal Australia (Australian\nA
 cademy of the Humanities\, 1999)\, Impossible Presence: Surface\nand Scree
 n in the Photogenic Era (Power Publications and the\nUniversity of Chicago
  Press\, 2001)\, with Paul Patton\, Jacques\nDerrida\, Deconstruction Enga
 ged: The Sydney Seminars (Power\nPublications\, 2001\, Tokyo: Iwanami Shot
 en\, 2005)\, Contemporary\nArt + Philanthropy (University of NSW Press\, 2
 007)\, and\nAntinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity\, postmodernity and\n
 contemporaneity (with Nancy Condee and Okwui Enwezor\, Duke\nUniversity Pr
 ess\, 2008). He is working on Contemporary Art of\nthe World: Late Modern 
 to Now (Laurence King and\nPearson/Prentice-Hall\, 2011). A foundation Boa
 rd member of the\nMuseum of Contemporary Art\, Sydney\, he is currently a 
 Board member\nof the Andy Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh. See http://www.terry
 esmith.net/web/\n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:AHCS Speaker Series: Terry Smith 'Contemporary Art: World Perspecti
 ves'
URL:/channels/event/ahcs-speaker-series-terry-smith-co
 ntemporary-art-world-perspectives-169244
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