Lecture

Varieties of Postmodernism

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161) and Online
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Add to Calendar 2024-12-04 13:00:00 2024-12-04 14:30:00 Varieties of Postmodernism 12/04/2024, 1-2:30pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston tickets@mfa.org America/New_York public

Whereas the modernist art of Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore was grounded in attachment to nature, a quest for authenticity and originality, and belief in making art for art’s sake, postmodernists were suspicious of those ideals. Looking at the work of a cohort that includes Cindy Sherman, David Salle, Robert Longo, Jeff Koons, Richard Prince, Jonathan Borofsky, Haim Steinbach, Allan McCollum, and Ellen Brooks, this lecture focuses on artists who cast an ironic eye on kitsch, commodities, and cultural clichés conveyed by commercial media. We also attend to the fertile legacies of postmodernism’s forerunners, including Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Jonathan Ribner, director of graduate admissions; History of Art and Architecture, associate professor, Late-18th- and 19th-Century European Art, Boston University

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Purchase a ticket package for the full five-session Abstracting Nature: Exploring Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore” course. Please note that this option is not available after the date of the first session.

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Supported by the MFA Associates, MFA Senior Associates, and Weekend Guides in honor of Barbara Martin.