Conférence d'Elisabeth Otto (3e cycle).
This talk explores the assimilation of « antimodernisms » into a formalist model of modernism at the beginning of the 20th century by the English scholar, painter and curator Roger Fry. We argue that even before Fry encountered with the work of Cézanne in 1906, and curated the two landmark « Post-Impressionist » exhibitions in 1910 and 1912 – moments which are generally considered to have fostered his formalist theory –, he had found fundamental material addressing what would be a major theoretical issue for him later on in Joshua Reynold's Discourses.
Reynolds had not only been a model as an art critic but also in his appreciation of the so called ‘primitive art’. In publishing his own edition of Reynold´s Discourses in 1905, we already see Fry's conviction that cultural regression is a necessary return to a starting-point from which art could evolve again.
Répondante : Ji-Yoon Han
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Les conférences Hypothèses proposent une série de rencontres autour des recherches menées par les étudiants des cycles supérieurs en histoire de l'art au Département d'histoire de l'art et d'études cinématographiques de l'Université de Montréal. Hypothèses a lieu un jeudi par mois, de septembre 2013 à avril 2014.
