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GCSC Keynote Lecture:Harry Lehmann: Conceptual Art and Music. Conceptualism as a Hot Contact Zone of the Arts

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11.12.2018 von 18:00 bis 20:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)

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GGK/GCSC Gebäude, Alter Steinbacher Weg 38, R. 001

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For Winter Semester 2018/19 each of the lectures in the five-part lecture series addresses the key concept of Contact Zones of the Study of Culture from different interdisciplinary perspectives.  The events are open to the public and no registration is required.

Contemporary art describes itself very often as "conceptual." However, what exactly does it mean? Usually, these artworks in question have little in common with the prime examples of Conceptual Art from the 1960th. It is of paramount importance for art theory today to have a clear understanding and a clear notion of the conceptual character of the arts. In my lecture, I would like to present a model of Conceptualism which allows to integrate into this model such different pieces like "One and Three Chairs" by Joseph Kosuth and the "Fettstuhl" by Joseph Beuys, or, in respect to music, 4'33'' by John Cage and "Pendulum Music" by Steve Reich. Conceptual art arose in opposition toward the aesthetics of classical modernism. Conceptual artists tried to show that art can be separated from any aesthetic experience and reduced to one single idea. Nevertheless, the anesthetic character is not the decisive criteria for Conceptualism. My thesis is that Conceptual music and Conceptual art are based on the principle of an isomorphic mapping between idea and work. On the one hand, the idea of the artwork manifest itself entirely in the piece, and on the other hand, every perceivable aspect of the artwork is a representation of that idea.

 

// Prof. Harry Lehmann