Artistic Experiments and our Issues with Them
Rob van Gerwen (Utrecht University)

October 22, 2014, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Institute of Philosophy, University of London

London
United Kingdom

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London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 22 October 2014 | 16.00 – 18.00
Senate House, Room 102
Rob van Gerwen (Utrecht)
Artistic Experiments and our Issues with Them   Nowadays, people are regularly horrified by contemporary art. Some think that all that artists aim to do is shock us. Deprecatingly, they call such art ‘Shock Art’. I discuss several examples, and show that all involve  some form of experimenting. To make sense of their experiments as art, as well as to channel people’s indignation about them by providing aesthetic norms, I propose an emendation of Levinson’s historical definition. This emendation also allows us to grasp that these and other contemporary artistic experiments comprise a genuinely novel art form, which I name implication art.   The talk will be free and open to all. For more information please visit our website www.londonaestheticsforum.org

The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) is generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics

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