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Internationale Tagung: Crisis: Art and Decision

Tagungen und Symposien 21.05.2015–22.05.2015

ETH Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz

The conference takes as its starting point the derivation of the ancient Greek verb krinein ("to divide", "to decide", "to separate"), which relates to both "crisis" and "critique". How can we make fruitful the concept of crisis, which is mainly used in the fields of economy, politics and psychology for the field of art history? What has become of the many cases of crisis – be it art, art history, the museum, the market, etc. – which have been proclaimed during the last decade. Is the idea of the artistic crisis, as a moment of radical change within an individual career, a topos from the historiography of romantic and modernist art, still useful today? Does the notion of political or economic crisis help to understand changes in the realm of art? And can the practice of art criticism and its normative criteria of value and quality, which during the 20th century got separated from the academic practice of art historiography, inspire the methodology of the discipline as a whole?

Conference Language: English

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