John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture 4/18
Stephanie Barron: The John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture
Monday, April 18, 2005, 6:30 PM
The New School
66 West 12th Street, 7th floor
New York City
Free Admission
The third John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Named after one of the university’s most influential art history teachers, the lectures in the past have been given by Michael Brenson and Linda Nochlin. John McDonald Moore taught art history and criticism at The New School from 1968 until his death in 1999. Not unlike a museum curator, he brought to his students the vision of an artist who is also a scholar, and his classes were famously popular. His students, family, and friends established this lecture series to honor John McDonald Moore’s contribution to the university’s intellectual life.
"Degenerate Art" and the Consequences for Post-War German Art
The infamous 1937 “Degenerate Art” show in Nazi Germany was the culmination of the Fascist movement against modern art. The exhibition had consequences that lasted well beyond the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. Contemporary art practices in Germany after the war were haunted by the specters of racism, nationalism, internationalism, communism, Expressionism, and abstraction. Discussions in a divided Germany revealed the diverse aspirations for the power and role of art in a political society. As the polemics and the intransigence surrounding this debate increased, it is possible to begin to reexamine these issues only in a post-Wall era. With an understanding of the circumstances that led to the “Degenerate Art” show and an examination of its purpose and results, we can begin to frame questions about German art after 1945.
For further information contact The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at 212.229.2436
Monday, April 18, 2005, 6:30 PM
The New School
66 West 12th Street, 7th floor
New York City
Free Admission
The third John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Named after one of the university’s most influential art history teachers, the lectures in the past have been given by Michael Brenson and Linda Nochlin. John McDonald Moore taught art history and criticism at The New School from 1968 until his death in 1999. Not unlike a museum curator, he brought to his students the vision of an artist who is also a scholar, and his classes were famously popular. His students, family, and friends established this lecture series to honor John McDonald Moore’s contribution to the university’s intellectual life.
"Degenerate Art" and the Consequences for Post-War German Art
The infamous 1937 “Degenerate Art” show in Nazi Germany was the culmination of the Fascist movement against modern art. The exhibition had consequences that lasted well beyond the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. Contemporary art practices in Germany after the war were haunted by the specters of racism, nationalism, internationalism, communism, Expressionism, and abstraction. Discussions in a divided Germany revealed the diverse aspirations for the power and role of art in a political society. As the polemics and the intransigence surrounding this debate increased, it is possible to begin to reexamine these issues only in a post-Wall era. With an understanding of the circumstances that led to the “Degenerate Art” show and an examination of its purpose and results, we can begin to frame questions about German art after 1945.
For further information contact The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at 212.229.2436
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