The Philosophy
Department cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Peter Osborne from Kingston University London.
This
talk will reflect on the relations between the temporal and periodizing categories of the classical, the modern and the contemporary,
via a critique of their rearticulation in the Pushkin XXI project of the Pushkin Museum Moscow.
Setting
out from Ernest Gombrich’s famous account of ‘the stylistic categories of art history’ in his 1963 essay ‘Norm and Form’,
it asks: ‘Can this mode of periodization really still be extended up to the present today?’ ‘Wherein lies the true difference
of the contemporary?’, ‘What critical work does it do as a designation for a particular kind of art?’
Peter Osborne
is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP),
Kingston University London. He has held Visiting International Chairs in the Philosophy Department at the University of Paris-8,
the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm and Yale University School of Art. Osborne has contributed to a range of international
journals (including: Afterall, Artforum, Art History, Cultural Studies, New German Critique, New Left Review, October, Oxford
Art Journal, Telos, Texte zur Kunst) and catalogues for art institutions (most recently at Reina Sofia, Madrid and MMK Frankfurt
– for its forthcoming show on Duchamp, spring 2022). He was co-curator of the Norwegian Representation at the Venice Biennale
2011. From 1983 to 2016 he was an editor of the British journal Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time:
Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995; 2011), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002), Marx (2004), Anywhere
or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013) and The Postconceptual Condition (2018). His next book, Crisis as Form,
is forthcoming in 2022.
The guest lecture will be held in English at the invitation of Antonia Birnbaum,
philosophie.uni-ak.ac.at.
– Admission free, pre-registration is required:
https://pretix.eu/Angewandte-Philosophie/PeterOsborne/We kindly ask you to respect the admission rules of the university (www.dieangewandte.at/covid19).We look forward to seeing you there!
