September 2006-2007
Paul
Ardenne
Contemporary Art and Art
Criticism:
Two Aesthetic Laboratories
Paul
Ardenne
The Event and the Documentary:
The Relative Visuality of Reality
Jérôme
Bazin
The Communist Site:
Social Distances in East German Painting
Annie
Claustres
Showcases
for Objects:
Transformations in European Norms of Taste, 1962-1972
Fabien
Danesi
A Few Reflections on the Revival
of Readymades in the Postmodern Era
Christian
Joschke
Images,
Groups, and Social Compromise
François
Legrand
The Rehabilitation of Academicism,
or Back to Bouville
Giovanna
Zapperi
From the Dandy to the
Diva
Giovanna
Zapperi
Machine-Women
The
conferences organized in September 2006 and September 2007 at the Hartung-Bergman
Foundation within the framework of our Science Po Arts and Societies
seminar were aimed at questioning the current process of redefinition
of art and of its social legitimacy. A sufficiently long-term historical
view was adopted in order to give credibility to these investigations.
Without refraining from looking back
in time--and in particular to the nineteenth century, when the status
of art and of the artist were undergoing appreciable changes--or from
making forays into other lands, the seminar studied the various movements,
events, and upheavals that, in France, have led to the complex and unprecedented
situation we know today.
Through lectures from a dozen scholars
per session, we considered the projects and the practices of artists;
political, economic, and social thinking about art as well as programs,
projects, and accomplished works; State policies but also private ones
(those of associations of collectors, museum benefactors, and foundations);
the behavior of various audiences of art (connoisseurs and buyers as well
as plain amateurs); and the ways in which forms of knowledge and specific
practices have been disseminated (through books, journals, and exhibitions).
Each speaker has endeavored to establish correspondences over time.
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac