The following quote is from an email announcement of a lecture by Dr Charles Green, Senior Lecturer in the School of Fine Arts, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Senior Curator 20th-21st Century Art, National Gallery of Victoria. Dr Green is presenting a lecture at Melbourne’s Centre for Contemporary Photography titled Atlas: Images versus Language.
… However, the much-vaunted interdisciplinarity of critical theory turned out to be almost entirely one-way, commencing with the seismic 1980s importation of theory into art practice, art theorists today propose different viewpoints—that artists can produce new knowledge through images, and at the same time that images must not be reduced to writing.
Other theorists argue that we are on the verge of a new understanding of visuality propelled by new media. Weighing up approaches to the image and finding them wanting, Green speculates as to how and why recent international art has arrived at a conception of itself that is different from both pre-modern art and postmodernism.
Green seems to be saying that Post-Modernism is dead, and artists are now permitted to go back to being artists, instead of the witting handmaidens of Johns Hopkins-style critical theorists. No more Baudrillard-illustrating art careerists.
Does this mean the Stalinist ideological correctness movement has disappeared from the Australian art world? I hope so. It was a terrible period in our recent history, very destructive.
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